| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
143.92 |
1.0349 |
0.2913 |
234 |
2 |
129.74 |
2011-09-06 |
| 2. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
140.83 |
1.0485 |
0.2843 |
153 |
1 |
140.83 |
2011-08-22 |
| 3. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
140.18 |
1.1215 |
0.1947 |
200 |
2 |
131.63 |
2012-10-30 |
| 4. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
137.43 |
1.0917 |
0.1985 |
243 |
1 |
137.43 |
2011-08-23 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
135.96 |
1.1018 |
0.1446 |
220 |
1 |
135.96 |
2012-10-31 |
| 6. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
133.10 |
1.0621 |
0.1836 |
263 |
2 |
131.58 |
2011-08-25 |
| 7. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
133.01 |
1.0201 |
0.1989 |
172 |
1 |
133.01 |
2012-11-06 |
| 8. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
131.66 |
1.0454 |
0.1647 |
255 |
1 |
131.66 |
2012-11-06 |
| 9. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
126.45 |
1.0385 |
0.1243 |
230 |
1 |
126.45 |
2012-10-31 |
| 10. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
126.42 |
0.9776 |
0.1871 |
308 |
1 |
126.42 |
2011-08-25 |
| 11. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
125.83 |
1.0183 |
0.1351 |
191 |
1 |
125.83 |
2011-08-18 |
| 12. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
125.79 |
0.9263 |
0.2353 |
188 |
1 |
125.79 |
2015-02-04 |
| 13. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
125.11 |
1.0203 |
0.1352 |
261 |
2 |
123.64 |
2011-08-25 |
| 14. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
124.93 |
0.9758 |
0.1753 |
314 |
1 |
124.93 |
2012-10-30 |
| 15. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
124.80 |
1.0555 |
0.1238 |
323 |
2 |
116.49 |
2012-10-30 |
| 16. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
124.70 |
0.9904 |
0.1982 |
203 |
2 |
123.96 |
2011-08-25 |
| 17. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
123.58 |
1.0613 |
0.0774 |
266 |
1 |
123.58 |
2012-11-06 |
| 18. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
123.45 |
1.1114 |
0.0225 |
247 |
2 |
116.51 |
2011-09-07 |
| 19. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
122.77 |
0.9597 |
0.1746 |
347 |
1 |
122.77 |
2011-08-11 |
| 20. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
122.28 |
1.0487 |
0.0719 |
231 |
1 |
122.28 |
2011-08-24 |
| 21. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
122.01 |
1.0177 |
0.1439 |
392 |
2 |
116.66 |
2011-09-06 |
| 22. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
121.72 |
0.9633 |
0.1591 |
304 |
1 |
121.72 |
2015-02-04 |
| 23. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
121.46 |
1.0498 |
0.0634 |
180 |
1 |
121.46 |
2011-09-06 |
| 24. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
121.31 |
0.9429 |
0.1753 |
287 |
1 |
121.31 |
2012-11-06 |
| 25. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
121.31 |
0.9898 |
0.1648 |
353 |
1 |
121.31 |
2011-08-25 |
| 26. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
120.81 |
1.1162 |
0.0370 |
189 |
1 |
120.81 |
2011-08-25 |
| 27. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
120.80 |
1.0941 |
0.0491 |
256 |
3 |
112.96 |
2015-02-04 |
| 28. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
119.91 |
1.0696 |
0.0306 |
226 |
1 |
119.91 |
2012-10-31 |
| 29. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
118.90 |
1.0523 |
0.0377 |
256 |
1 |
118.90 |
2011-08-25 |
| 30. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
118.85 |
0.9168 |
0.1786 |
240 |
1 |
118.85 |
2011-08-18 |
| 31. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
118.18 |
1.0213 |
0.0632 |
240 |
1 |
118.18 |
2011-09-07 |
| 32. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
116.87 |
0.9754 |
0.1059 |
362 |
1 |
116.87 |
2011-08-25 |
| 33. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
116.46 |
0.9636 |
0.1075 |
254 |
2 |
112.97 |
2011-08-25 |
| 34. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
116.09 |
0.9383 |
0.1514 |
471 |
1 |
116.09 |
2012-11-06 |
| 35. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
116.00 |
1.0711 |
-0.0091 |
213 |
1 |
116.00 |
2011-04-19 |
| 36. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
115.27 |
0.9353 |
0.1205 |
177 |
1 |
115.27 |
2015-02-04 |
| 37. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
114.81 |
0.8915 |
0.1628 |
188 |
1 |
114.81 |
2015-02-04 |
| 38. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
114.33 |
1.1296 |
-0.0489 |
252 |
1 |
114.33 |
2011-04-11 |
| 39. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
114.29 |
0.9342 |
0.1209 |
434 |
1 |
114.29 |
2012-11-06 |
| 40. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
114.27 |
1.0763 |
0.0166 |
367 |
1 |
114.27 |
2011-08-25 |
| 41. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
114.10 |
1.0459 |
0.0345 |
200 |
1 |
114.10 |
2015-02-04 |
| 42. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
114.01 |
1.0630 |
0.0193 |
397 |
1 |
114.01 |
2011-08-11 |
| 43. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
113.05 |
1.0141 |
0.0662 |
381 |
1 |
113.05 |
2011-08-25 |
| 44. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
112.63 |
1.0173 |
0.0625 |
268 |
2 |
111.31 |
2012-10-31 |
| 45. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
112.15 |
0.9527 |
0.0789 |
251 |
2 |
108.04 |
2012-10-31 |
| 46. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
112.13 |
1.0740 |
-0.0045 |
264 |
1 |
112.13 |
2011-08-25 |
| 47. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
111.69 |
0.9275 |
0.0965 |
211 |
1 |
111.69 |
2011-08-25 |
| 48. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
111.24 |
1.0795 |
-0.0264 |
226 |
2 |
101.89 |
2012-11-06 |
| 49. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
111.12 |
0.8919 |
0.1285 |
205 |
2 |
104.55 |
2011-09-06 |
| 50. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
110.51 |
0.9740 |
0.0378 |
209 |
1 |
110.51 |
2015-02-04 |
| 51. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
110.49 |
1.0379 |
0.0126 |
245 |
1 |
110.49 |
2011-09-06 |
| 52. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
110.38 |
1.0677 |
-0.0225 |
284 |
1 |
110.38 |
2011-08-25 |
| 53. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
108.65 |
1.0725 |
-0.0481 |
233 |
1 |
108.65 |
2011-08-25 |
| 54. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
108.29 |
1.0340 |
-0.0332 |
406 |
1 |
108.29 |
2009-10-05 |
| 55. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
108.18 |
0.9676 |
0.0351 |
442 |
1 |
108.18 |
2011-08-18 |
| 56. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
107.46 |
0.9293 |
0.0596 |
355 |
1 |
107.46 |
2011-08-25 |
| 57. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
107.22 |
0.9991 |
-0.0130 |
225 |
1 |
107.22 |
2011-08-18 |
| 58. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
106.78 |
1.0263 |
-0.0460 |
267 |
1 |
106.78 |
2011-08-18 |
| 59. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
106.77 |
1.0331 |
-0.0541 |
234 |
1 |
106.77 |
2009-10-05 |
| 60. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
106.73 |
0.9997 |
-0.0150 |
382 |
1 |
106.73 |
2011-08-22 |
| 61. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
106.28 |
1.0419 |
-0.0655 |
261 |
1 |
106.28 |
2011-08-24 |
| 62. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
105.81 |
0.9844 |
-0.0070 |
293 |
1 |
105.81 |
2012-11-06 |
| 63. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
105.38 |
0.8753 |
0.1024 |
427 |
1 |
105.38 |
2012-11-06 |
| 64. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
104.90 |
0.9786 |
-0.0198 |
193 |
2 |
93.71 |
2011-08-22 |
| 65. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
104.73 |
1.0218 |
-0.0624 |
268 |
1 |
104.73 |
2011-08-24 |
| 66. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
104.46 |
1.0555 |
-0.0942 |
363 |
1 |
104.46 |
2011-08-11 |
| 67. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
103.05 |
0.9286 |
0.0168 |
194 |
1 |
103.05 |
2015-02-04 |
| 68. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
102.92 |
0.9243 |
0.0608 |
448 |
1 |
102.92 |
2011-08-25 |
| 69. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
102.33 |
0.9843 |
-0.0495 |
234 |
1 |
102.33 |
2009-10-05 |
| 70. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
102.30 |
1.1014 |
-0.1241 |
273 |
2 |
99.67 |
2011-08-25 |
| 71. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
102.22 |
0.9398 |
0.0087 |
419 |
1 |
102.22 |
2011-08-18 |
| 72. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
102.07 |
1.0358 |
-0.0564 |
349 |
2 |
98.99 |
2009-10-12 |
| 73. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
102.07 |
1.0445 |
-0.1058 |
373 |
1 |
102.07 |
2011-08-22 |
| 74. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
101.59 |
0.9693 |
-0.0148 |
360 |
1 |
101.59 |
2011-08-18 |
| 75. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
101.34 |
1.0787 |
-0.1496 |
237 |
1 |
101.34 |
2011-04-11 |
| 76. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
101.30 |
0.9897 |
-0.0618 |
274 |
1 |
101.30 |
2009-10-05 |
| 77. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
101.29 |
0.9790 |
-0.0081 |
311 |
2 |
96.69 |
2011-08-25 |
| 78. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
100.70 |
1.0320 |
-0.0702 |
293 |
1 |
100.70 |
2009-10-09 |
| 79. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
99.78 |
0.9893 |
-0.0731 |
323 |
1 |
99.78 |
2011-08-24 |
| 80. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
99.45 |
0.9546 |
-0.0104 |
198 |
1 |
99.45 |
2009-10-12 |
| 81. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
99.18 |
1.0944 |
-0.1393 |
308 |
1 |
99.18 |
2009-10-12 |
| 82. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
99.13 |
0.9426 |
-0.0293 |
317 |
1 |
99.13 |
2011-08-25 |
| 83. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
99.01 |
0.9756 |
-0.0680 |
229 |
1 |
99.01 |
2011-04-19 |
| 84. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
99.01 |
0.9965 |
-0.0871 |
310 |
2 |
98.80 |
2011-09-06 |
| 85. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
98.30 |
0.9912 |
-0.0619 |
237 |
1 |
98.30 |
2011-09-06 |
| 86. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
97.58 |
0.9857 |
-0.0911 |
293 |
1 |
97.58 |
2011-08-25 |
| 87. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
97.53 |
0.8105 |
0.0801 |
204 |
1 |
97.53 |
2011-08-25 |
| 88. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
97.14 |
1.0252 |
-0.1402 |
176 |
1 |
97.14 |
2011-09-06 |
| 89. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
95.30 |
0.9309 |
-0.0585 |
284 |
1 |
95.30 |
2011-08-18 |
| 90. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
95.08 |
1.0214 |
-0.1066 |
281 |
1 |
95.08 |
2011-08-11 |
| 91. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
94.21 |
0.9148 |
-0.0489 |
317 |
1 |
94.21 |
2009-10-05 |
| 92. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
93.89 |
1.0368 |
-0.1748 |
276 |
1 |
93.89 |
2011-08-18 |
| 93. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
92.60 |
0.9786 |
-0.1299 |
235 |
1 |
92.60 |
2015-02-04 |
| 94. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
92.47 |
1.1068 |
-0.2183 |
393 |
1 |
92.47 |
2009-10-09 |
| 95. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
92.35 |
0.9709 |
-0.0825 |
397 |
1 |
92.35 |
2011-04-11 |
| 96. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
92.07 |
0.9089 |
-0.0610 |
342 |
1 |
92.07 |
2009-10-12 |
| 97. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
90.27 |
0.8770 |
-0.0462 |
300 |
2 |
87.29 |
2011-09-06 |
| 98. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
88.69 |
0.8956 |
-0.0781 |
322 |
1 |
88.69 |
2011-04-19 |
| 99. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
86.86 |
0.9365 |
-0.1392 |
248 |
1 |
86.86 |
2009-10-12 |
| 100. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
86.77 |
0.9710 |
-0.1824 |
173 |
1 |
86.77 |
2009-10-12 |
| 101. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
85.27 |
0.9084 |
-0.1257 |
300 |
1 |
85.27 |
2009-10-05 |
| 102. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
84.65 |
1.0885 |
-0.3099 |
315 |
1 |
84.65 |
2011-08-22 |
| 103. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
83.63 |
1.0666 |
-0.3005 |
297 |
1 |
83.63 |
2009-10-12 |
| 104. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
82.70 |
0.8533 |
-0.0954 |
232 |
1 |
82.70 |
2015-02-04 |
| 105. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
82.56 |
0.8826 |
-0.1252 |
296 |
1 |
82.56 |
2011-04-11 |
| 106. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
82.32 |
1.0521 |
-0.3038 |
171 |
1 |
82.32 |
2010-01-13 |
| 107. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
81.38 |
0.9792 |
-0.1960 |
265 |
1 |
81.38 |
2011-04-19 |
| 108. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
81.21 |
0.9514 |
-0.2079 |
237 |
1 |
81.21 |
2010-01-13 |
| 109. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
80.87 |
0.8353 |
-0.0880 |
283 |
1 |
80.87 |
2009-10-05 |
| 110. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
80.28 |
0.9567 |
-0.1797 |
184 |
1 |
80.28 |
2011-04-19 |
| 111. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
74.85 |
1.0534 |
-0.3669 |
357 |
1 |
74.85 |
2009-10-12 |
| 112. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
72.40 |
0.9852 |
-0.3237 |
264 |
1 |
72.40 |
2011-08-25 |
| 113. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
60.39 |
0.9884 |
-0.4395 |
233 |
1 |
60.39 |
2011-08-25 |