| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
144.64 |
0.9899 |
0.2979 |
163 |
1 |
144.64 |
2010-04-02 |
| 2. |
There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts,... |
138.74 |
1.0885 |
0.1433 |
242 |
1 |
138.74 |
2024-03-08 |
| 3. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
137.44 |
1.0613 |
0.1627 |
266 |
1 |
137.44 |
2010-04-02 |
| 4. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
134.81 |
1.0498 |
0.1491 |
180 |
2 |
118.41 |
2014-11-21 |
| 5. |
With people like us, you should hang out, get to know what t... |
132.13 |
1.0979 |
0.0793 |
191 |
1 |
132.13 |
2016-09-23 |
| 6. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
130.97 |
1.0529 |
0.1129 |
351 |
1 |
130.97 |
2014-05-15 |
| 7. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
130.63 |
1.0565 |
0.1061 |
247 |
1 |
130.63 |
2010-10-15 |
| 8. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
129.41 |
0.9865 |
0.1662 |
276 |
1 |
129.41 |
2014-09-04 |
| 9. |
I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop. I work here wit... |
128.93 |
0.9983 |
0.1496 |
231 |
1 |
128.93 |
2017-05-09 |
| 10. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
128.68 |
1.0352 |
0.1105 |
341 |
1 |
128.68 |
2010-11-12 |
| 11. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
128.39 |
1.0197 |
0.1226 |
226 |
1 |
128.39 |
2014-05-09 |
| 12. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
127.79 |
1.0574 |
0.1032 |
205 |
1 |
127.79 |
2014-09-25 |
| 13. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
127.44 |
1.1081 |
0.0577 |
206 |
1 |
127.44 |
2014-05-21 |
| 14. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
127.25 |
1.0218 |
0.1095 |
268 |
1 |
127.25 |
2010-04-02 |
| 15. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
127.19 |
1.0944 |
0.0724 |
308 |
1 |
127.19 |
2010-04-02 |
| 16. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
127.14 |
1.0596 |
0.0714 |
239 |
1 |
127.14 |
2014-05-14 |
| 17. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
126.61 |
1.0711 |
0.0539 |
213 |
1 |
126.61 |
2014-05-15 |
| 18. |
I'm just not the guy for you. I mean, you need a guy who's h... |
125.91 |
1.0574 |
0.0633 |
207 |
1 |
125.91 |
2018-04-26 |
| 19. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
125.81 |
0.9897 |
0.1304 |
274 |
1 |
125.81 |
2014-05-09 |
| 20. |
Now, normally, she sells seashells by the seashore, but toda... |
125.67 |
0.9967 |
0.1210 |
261 |
1 |
125.67 |
2024-03-08 |
| 21. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
125.64 |
1.0138 |
0.1044 |
231 |
1 |
125.64 |
2014-05-14 |
| 22. |
Do not try any of this at home. The author of this book is a... |
125.49 |
0.9612 |
0.1588 |
371 |
1 |
125.49 |
2018-06-22 |
| 23. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
124.93 |
1.1296 |
0.0093 |
252 |
1 |
124.93 |
2014-05-21 |
| 24. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
124.52 |
1.0502 |
0.0690 |
535 |
1 |
124.52 |
2010-11-12 |
| 25. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
124.03 |
0.9966 |
0.1080 |
259 |
1 |
124.03 |
2014-09-25 |
| 26. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
123.93 |
1.0296 |
0.0737 |
437 |
2 |
110.57 |
2017-05-09 |
| 27. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
123.64 |
0.9636 |
0.1369 |
254 |
1 |
123.64 |
2010-04-02 |
| 28. |
The present is eternally flawed. But where you start might n... |
123.55 |
1.0255 |
0.0747 |
343 |
1 |
123.55 |
2024-03-08 |
| 29. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
123.28 |
1.0297 |
0.0668 |
249 |
1 |
123.28 |
2010-04-02 |
| 30. |
That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight losing m... |
123.07 |
1.0267 |
0.0677 |
181 |
1 |
123.07 |
2018-04-20 |
| 31. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
122.62 |
0.9925 |
0.1305 |
247 |
1 |
122.62 |
2018-06-22 |
| 32. |
There is some love that will not go away. You're here, there... |
122.15 |
1.0886 |
-0.0025 |
169 |
1 |
122.15 |
2018-05-09 |
| 33. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
122.05 |
0.9557 |
0.1321 |
331 |
2 |
117.15 |
2014-05-21 |
| 34. |
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of ... |
122.04 |
1.0263 |
0.0614 |
307 |
1 |
122.04 |
2018-04-20 |
| 35. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
121.69 |
1.0131 |
0.0699 |
225 |
1 |
121.69 |
2016-09-23 |
| 36. |
I've known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests. Honorab... |
121.49 |
1.0362 |
0.0451 |
372 |
1 |
121.49 |
2024-03-08 |
| 37. |
The math is compelling. Most of the people in the world are ... |
121.36 |
1.0321 |
0.0502 |
343 |
1 |
121.36 |
2016-09-23 |
| 38. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
121.32 |
1.0993 |
-0.0205 |
265 |
1 |
121.32 |
2010-04-02 |
| 39. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
121.25 |
0.9831 |
0.0974 |
469 |
1 |
121.25 |
2014-05-09 |
| 40. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
121.14 |
0.9852 |
0.0927 |
264 |
1 |
121.14 |
2014-05-09 |
| 41. |
So much of this story is about human will, about what we can... |
120.42 |
1.0863 |
-0.0135 |
261 |
1 |
120.42 |
2018-04-25 |
| 42. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
120.33 |
1.1016 |
-0.0310 |
233 |
1 |
120.33 |
2010-04-02 |
| 43. |
Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understandin... |
119.90 |
1.0161 |
0.0549 |
192 |
1 |
119.90 |
2018-04-26 |
| 44. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
119.29 |
1.0346 |
0.0623 |
244 |
1 |
119.29 |
2014-05-09 |
| 45. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
118.35 |
1.0487 |
0.0023 |
231 |
1 |
118.35 |
2010-04-02 |
| 46. |
You have no idea what I want. What is chess, do you think? T... |
117.70 |
0.9655 |
0.0855 |
556 |
1 |
117.70 |
2018-04-20 |
| 47. |
For most people, the ringing of a phone was a welcome sign. ... |
117.65 |
0.9773 |
0.0715 |
220 |
1 |
117.65 |
2017-02-20 |
| 48. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
117.49 |
1.0417 |
0.0035 |
253 |
1 |
117.49 |
2010-10-15 |
| 49. |
The Swarms have crushed the meager human resistance and laid... |
117.48 |
0.9197 |
0.1281 |
297 |
1 |
117.48 |
2016-09-23 |
| 50. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
117.38 |
0.9084 |
0.1369 |
300 |
2 |
104.95 |
2014-10-05 |
| 51. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
117.31 |
1.0125 |
0.0312 |
224 |
1 |
117.31 |
2013-04-24 |
| 52. |
First of all, let's stop pretending that everyone can or sho... |
116.65 |
1.0239 |
0.0164 |
351 |
1 |
116.65 |
2024-03-08 |
| 53. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
116.05 |
1.0390 |
-0.0086 |
205 |
1 |
116.05 |
2014-05-21 |
| 54. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
116.03 |
0.9976 |
0.0537 |
174 |
1 |
116.03 |
2010-04-02 |
| 55. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
115.94 |
1.0349 |
-0.0031 |
234 |
1 |
115.94 |
2010-10-15 |
| 56. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
115.03 |
1.0272 |
0.0074 |
405 |
1 |
115.03 |
2014-11-21 |
| 57. |
Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you,... |
114.71 |
0.9499 |
0.0703 |
100 |
1 |
114.71 |
2015-12-16 |
| 58. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
114.60 |
1.0251 |
-0.0071 |
261 |
1 |
114.60 |
2014-05-09 |
| 59. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
114.03 |
0.8653 |
0.1543 |
255 |
1 |
114.03 |
2010-04-02 |
| 60. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
113.83 |
0.8562 |
0.1600 |
170 |
1 |
113.83 |
2010-04-02 |
| 61. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
113.83 |
0.9216 |
0.1213 |
255 |
1 |
113.83 |
2016-09-23 |
| 62. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
113.81 |
1.0120 |
0.0003 |
290 |
1 |
113.81 |
2013-04-24 |
| 63. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
113.74 |
0.9164 |
0.0958 |
305 |
1 |
113.74 |
2013-04-24 |
| 64. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
113.65 |
1.0203 |
-0.0089 |
261 |
1 |
113.65 |
2010-04-02 |
| 65. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
113.62 |
0.9710 |
0.0395 |
173 |
1 |
113.62 |
2010-11-12 |
| 66. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
113.55 |
0.9780 |
0.0320 |
337 |
2 |
112.07 |
2014-05-21 |
| 67. |
One just can't imagine what prison is like from outside. You... |
113.25 |
1.0336 |
-0.0247 |
271 |
1 |
113.25 |
2016-09-23 |
| 68. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
113.13 |
1.0173 |
0.0274 |
268 |
1 |
113.13 |
2014-05-15 |
| 69. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
112.88 |
1.0270 |
0.0070 |
255 |
1 |
112.88 |
2010-04-02 |
| 70. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
112.67 |
1.0073 |
-0.0038 |
369 |
1 |
112.67 |
2015-12-16 |
| 71. |
I didn't get you to do anything. I gave you a name and you m... |
111.29 |
1.0283 |
-0.0368 |
449 |
1 |
111.29 |
2018-04-20 |
| 72. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
110.72 |
0.9678 |
0.0386 |
445 |
2 |
101.44 |
2014-05-14 |
| 73. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
110.62 |
0.9508 |
0.0553 |
384 |
1 |
110.62 |
2014-09-25 |
| 74. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
110.47 |
1.0419 |
-0.0605 |
261 |
1 |
110.47 |
2010-04-02 |
| 75. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
110.09 |
1.0004 |
-0.0223 |
212 |
1 |
110.09 |
2010-11-12 |
| 76. |
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty again... |
109.98 |
1.0212 |
-0.0420 |
169 |
1 |
109.98 |
2016-09-23 |
| 77. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
109.34 |
1.0444 |
-0.0729 |
197 |
1 |
109.34 |
2014-05-14 |
| 78. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
108.83 |
0.9946 |
-0.0272 |
246 |
1 |
108.83 |
2013-03-04 |
| 79. |
One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie. A gir... |
108.81 |
1.0413 |
-0.0727 |
234 |
1 |
108.81 |
2024-03-08 |
| 80. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
108.77 |
0.9619 |
0.0068 |
393 |
1 |
108.77 |
2013-04-24 |
| 81. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
108.55 |
0.9084 |
0.0576 |
404 |
2 |
97.84 |
2014-10-13 |
| 82. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
108.01 |
0.9570 |
0.0041 |
287 |
1 |
108.01 |
2014-05-21 |
| 83. |
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased qu... |
107.94 |
0.9216 |
0.0426 |
211 |
1 |
107.94 |
2017-02-20 |
| 84. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
107.92 |
1.0725 |
-0.0878 |
233 |
2 |
104.19 |
2014-09-25 |
| 85. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
107.20 |
0.9202 |
0.0335 |
254 |
2 |
102.13 |
2014-10-13 |
| 86. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
107.07 |
0.9125 |
0.0406 |
308 |
1 |
107.07 |
2014-05-09 |
| 87. |
I used to think that memories were a way of holding on to th... |
107.06 |
1.0570 |
-0.1061 |
233 |
1 |
107.06 |
2024-03-08 |
| 88. |
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. I have dece... |
106.82 |
0.9842 |
-0.0305 |
475 |
1 |
106.82 |
2018-07-13 |
| 89. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
106.59 |
0.8919 |
0.0560 |
205 |
1 |
106.59 |
2010-04-02 |
| 90. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
106.30 |
0.9509 |
0.0276 |
225 |
1 |
106.30 |
2010-04-02 |
| 91. |
The latest wave of globalization strongly challenges the ins... |
106.29 |
0.9185 |
0.0312 |
420 |
1 |
106.29 |
2018-04-25 |
| 92. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
106.02 |
0.8442 |
0.1021 |
265 |
1 |
106.02 |
2010-04-02 |
| 93. |
I cannot define what I mean by 'intuition'. It is simply wha... |
105.92 |
0.9047 |
0.0407 |
305 |
1 |
105.92 |
2016-09-23 |
| 94. |
He had a few accomplices, none on record, most of the time c... |
105.79 |
0.9048 |
0.0397 |
299 |
1 |
105.79 |
2018-04-20 |
| 95. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
105.71 |
0.9649 |
-0.0246 |
193 |
1 |
105.71 |
2010-04-02 |
| 96. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
105.56 |
1.0117 |
-0.0366 |
297 |
1 |
105.56 |
2014-05-09 |
| 97. |
You should just get a van. With a van, it's like you've got ... |
105.05 |
0.9709 |
-0.0371 |
201 |
1 |
105.05 |
2024-03-08 |
| 98. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
104.68 |
0.9365 |
-0.0050 |
248 |
1 |
104.68 |
2010-04-02 |
| 99. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
104.67 |
1.0099 |
-0.0804 |
207 |
1 |
104.67 |
2010-04-02 |
| 100. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
104.59 |
1.0788 |
-0.1500 |
171 |
1 |
104.59 |
2015-12-16 |
| 101. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
104.38 |
0.9673 |
-0.0026 |
232 |
1 |
104.38 |
2014-09-25 |
| 102. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
104.35 |
1.0025 |
-0.0756 |
336 |
1 |
104.35 |
2014-10-13 |
| 103. |
Late night watching television. But how'd we get in this pos... |
104.17 |
0.9621 |
-0.0344 |
202 |
1 |
104.17 |
2018-07-13 |
| 104. |
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inhe... |
103.29 |
0.9605 |
-0.0386 |
460 |
1 |
103.29 |
2018-04-26 |
| 105. |
For instance, there is no light without darkness - and this ... |
103.18 |
1.0998 |
-0.1817 |
223 |
1 |
103.18 |
2024-03-08 |
| 106. |
The foibles of politics and the march of time can turn frien... |
103.12 |
0.9325 |
-0.0122 |
493 |
1 |
103.12 |
2018-04-20 |
| 107. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
102.96 |
0.9884 |
-0.0727 |
233 |
1 |
102.96 |
2014-10-13 |
| 108. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
102.32 |
0.9790 |
-0.0373 |
311 |
1 |
102.32 |
2010-11-12 |
| 109. |
Well, here we are again. It's always such a pleasure. Rememb... |
102.29 |
0.9571 |
-0.0469 |
204 |
1 |
102.29 |
2024-03-08 |
| 110. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
102.29 |
0.9786 |
-0.0708 |
193 |
1 |
102.29 |
2015-12-16 |
| 111. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
102.15 |
1.0201 |
-0.1122 |
303 |
1 |
102.15 |
2013-04-24 |
| 112. |
Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever though... |
102.07 |
0.9517 |
-0.0408 |
401 |
1 |
102.07 |
2018-04-25 |
| 113. |
It is a shockingly common occurrence in my life that women a... |
101.85 |
0.9139 |
-0.0045 |
318 |
1 |
101.85 |
2018-04-20 |
| 114. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
101.58 |
1.0385 |
-0.1369 |
230 |
1 |
101.58 |
2010-04-02 |
| 115. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
101.43 |
0.9359 |
-0.0073 |
353 |
1 |
101.43 |
2024-03-08 |
| 116. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
101.34 |
0.9426 |
-0.0403 |
317 |
1 |
101.34 |
2018-05-09 |
| 117. |
All at sea again, and now my hurricanes, have brought down t... |
100.79 |
0.9843 |
-0.0546 |
325 |
1 |
100.79 |
2018-04-25 |
| 118. |
The first part of the Rite, which ends with the sweat-induci... |
100.74 |
0.8073 |
0.0906 |
198 |
1 |
100.74 |
2018-07-13 |
| 119. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
100.25 |
1.0232 |
-0.0952 |
350 |
1 |
100.25 |
2010-04-02 |
| 120. |
A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine unti... |
99.78 |
0.8996 |
-0.0084 |
259 |
1 |
99.78 |
2018-04-25 |
| 121. |
Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all o... |
98.55 |
0.9333 |
-0.0543 |
262 |
1 |
98.55 |
2018-04-26 |
| 122. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
98.01 |
1.0077 |
-0.1032 |
250 |
1 |
98.01 |
2010-04-02 |
| 123. |
Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Is... |
97.21 |
0.8640 |
0.0038 |
345 |
1 |
97.21 |
2018-04-20 |
| 124. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
96.83 |
0.9279 |
-0.0667 |
317 |
1 |
96.83 |
2013-04-24 |
| 125. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
96.56 |
0.9529 |
-0.0622 |
269 |
1 |
96.56 |
2010-04-02 |
| 126. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
96.14 |
0.9904 |
-0.0996 |
203 |
1 |
96.14 |
2014-11-21 |
| 127. |
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I ... |
95.68 |
0.9764 |
-0.1265 |
137 |
1 |
95.68 |
2017-02-20 |
| 128. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
95.66 |
0.9697 |
-0.1195 |
249 |
1 |
95.66 |
2014-10-13 |
| 129. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
95.10 |
0.9687 |
-0.1223 |
371 |
1 |
95.10 |
2014-10-13 |
| 130. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
94.45 |
0.8105 |
0.0287 |
204 |
1 |
94.45 |
2014-10-13 |
| 131. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
92.88 |
0.9569 |
-0.1206 |
410 |
1 |
92.88 |
2015-12-16 |
| 132. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
92.07 |
1.0183 |
-0.2019 |
191 |
1 |
92.07 |
2013-03-04 |
| 133. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
91.63 |
0.9339 |
-0.1196 |
310 |
1 |
91.63 |
2010-04-02 |
| 134. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
90.21 |
0.8595 |
-0.0577 |
242 |
1 |
90.21 |
2010-04-02 |
| 135. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
89.21 |
0.9631 |
-0.1340 |
345 |
1 |
89.21 |
2018-05-09 |
| 136. |
No battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field o... |
86.70 |
0.9937 |
-0.2233 |
159 |
1 |
86.70 |
2024-03-08 |
| 137. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
86.49 |
0.9740 |
-0.2063 |
209 |
1 |
86.49 |
2010-11-12 |
| 138. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
84.69 |
1.0388 |
-0.2608 |
243 |
1 |
84.69 |
2010-04-02 |
| 139. |
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping ou... |
84.37 |
1.0579 |
-0.3100 |
348 |
1 |
84.37 |
2024-03-08 |
| 140. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
79.78 |
0.9383 |
-0.2201 |
471 |
1 |
79.78 |
2014-05-26 |
| 141. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
65.49 |
0.9632 |
-0.3538 |
345 |
1 |
65.49 |
2014-05-26 |