Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
59.95 |
1.0016 |
0.2707 |
218 |
1 |
59.95 |
2023-07-26 |
2. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
59.14 |
1.0598 |
0.1953 |
196 |
1 |
59.14 |
2022-05-06 |
3. |
Achilles will never overtake the tortoise. He must first rea... |
59.01 |
1.0924 |
0.1599 |
289 |
1 |
59.01 |
2023-07-28 |
4. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
58.73 |
1.0270 |
0.2194 |
255 |
2 |
54.49 |
2025-06-20 |
5. |
The night is bitter, the stars have lost their glitter, the ... |
55.61 |
1.0701 |
0.1101 |
242 |
1 |
55.61 |
2023-07-26 |
6. |
When you go on the run, the first thing you do is lay down t... |
54.71 |
1.0836 |
0.0775 |
370 |
1 |
54.71 |
2023-07-28 |
7. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
54.46 |
1.0679 |
0.0879 |
177 |
1 |
54.46 |
2023-07-28 |
8. |
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the d... |
54.15 |
1.1225 |
0.0267 |
195 |
1 |
54.15 |
2025-06-20 |
9. |
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourse... |
53.89 |
1.0107 |
0.1330 |
166 |
1 |
53.89 |
2022-05-06 |
10. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
53.74 |
1.0613 |
0.0792 |
266 |
1 |
53.74 |
2022-05-06 |
11. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
53.27 |
0.9578 |
0.1727 |
281 |
1 |
53.27 |
2023-07-26 |
12. |
I have a small favor to ask regarding our impending wedding.... |
52.73 |
1.0595 |
0.0596 |
254 |
1 |
52.73 |
2022-11-02 |
13. |
Sometimes at night I let it get to me. And sometimes, I'm su... |
52.73 |
1.0801 |
0.0390 |
212 |
1 |
52.73 |
2022-05-02 |
14. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
52.49 |
1.0349 |
0.0791 |
234 |
1 |
52.49 |
2023-08-09 |
15. |
My wife was... very nice. A wonderful, warm woman. And then ... |
52.46 |
1.0936 |
0.0197 |
209 |
1 |
52.46 |
2025-06-20 |
16. |
Now and again we try to just stay alive, maybe we'll turn it... |
51.90 |
0.9542 |
0.1472 |
118 |
1 |
51.90 |
2022-04-06 |
17. |
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in t... |
51.72 |
1.0536 |
0.0440 |
171 |
1 |
51.72 |
2022-05-02 |
18. |
Take a look inside your heart, is there any room for me? I w... |
51.70 |
1.0689 |
0.0283 |
202 |
1 |
51.70 |
2025-06-20 |
19. |
When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in th... |
51.59 |
1.0883 |
0.0066 |
140 |
1 |
51.59 |
2023-07-26 |
20. |
Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it migh... |
51.56 |
1.1522 |
-0.0580 |
202 |
1 |
51.56 |
2022-05-20 |
21. |
The sun, the moon, the stars, shine less brightly with you s... |
51.38 |
1.0886 |
0.0018 |
247 |
1 |
51.38 |
2025-06-20 |
22. |
Growing to hate decisive moments, the only thing within a br... |
51.27 |
1.0395 |
0.0486 |
239 |
1 |
51.27 |
2023-07-26 |
23. |
For this dark and lonely room projects a shadow cast in gloo... |
51.22 |
1.0512 |
0.0358 |
207 |
1 |
51.22 |
2022-03-21 |
24. |
Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take ... |
51.18 |
1.0959 |
-0.0097 |
136 |
1 |
51.18 |
2022-04-06 |
25. |
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because ... |
51.09 |
1.0639 |
0.0204 |
264 |
1 |
51.09 |
2023-07-26 |
26. |
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people ... |
50.79 |
1.0112 |
0.0667 |
178 |
1 |
50.79 |
2022-11-07 |
27. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
50.59 |
1.0485 |
0.0251 |
153 |
1 |
50.59 |
2025-06-20 |
28. |
We've wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close her woun... |
49.45 |
0.9710 |
0.0785 |
198 |
1 |
49.45 |
2023-07-28 |
29. |
Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swe... |
49.33 |
1.0932 |
-0.0463 |
192 |
1 |
49.33 |
2023-07-26 |
30. |
You don't need and you push away anyone who's willing to put... |
49.24 |
1.0410 |
0.0040 |
172 |
1 |
49.24 |
2023-07-26 |
31. |
The crowd is running for their lives. I think I'm going to s... |
49.12 |
1.0222 |
0.0202 |
256 |
1 |
49.12 |
2023-07-28 |
32. |
Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a ... |
48.99 |
1.0998 |
-0.0601 |
285 |
1 |
48.99 |
2022-05-20 |
33. |
As my bones grew they did hurt. They hurt really bad. I trie... |
48.93 |
1.0619 |
-0.0235 |
223 |
1 |
48.93 |
2023-07-26 |
34. |
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in t... |
48.92 |
1.0944 |
-0.0562 |
193 |
1 |
48.92 |
2022-03-08 |
35. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
48.90 |
1.0763 |
-0.0385 |
367 |
1 |
48.90 |
2023-07-26 |
36. |
There are places I'll remember all my life, though some have... |
48.85 |
1.0694 |
-0.0327 |
211 |
1 |
48.85 |
2023-07-28 |
37. |
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange ... |
48.76 |
1.0100 |
0.0248 |
268 |
1 |
48.76 |
2022-11-02 |
38. |
It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when E... |
48.58 |
1.0262 |
0.0048 |
394 |
1 |
48.58 |
2022-04-08 |
39. |
Like a river flows surely to the sea, darling so it goes. So... |
48.50 |
1.0386 |
-0.0093 |
167 |
1 |
48.50 |
2022-03-08 |
40. |
So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were f... |
48.32 |
1.0397 |
-0.0142 |
206 |
1 |
48.32 |
2022-05-02 |
41. |
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake. You d... |
48.03 |
1.0369 |
-0.0176 |
244 |
1 |
48.03 |
2022-05-20 |
42. |
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it t... |
47.97 |
1.0041 |
0.0139 |
310 |
1 |
47.97 |
2023-07-26 |
43. |
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter; "But," she said, "this ... |
47.86 |
0.9200 |
0.0957 |
342 |
1 |
47.86 |
2023-07-28 |
44. |
I know you didn't do this. You're a good boy. But I want you... |
47.85 |
1.0412 |
-0.0257 |
384 |
1 |
47.85 |
2023-08-03 |
45. |
Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The t... |
47.41 |
1.0199 |
-0.0137 |
381 |
1 |
47.41 |
2022-04-08 |
46. |
After I finish, it's like the part of me that can't fall asl... |
47.40 |
1.0701 |
-0.0642 |
313 |
1 |
47.40 |
2022-03-23 |
47. |
So they stood at the edge of the woods while all the other k... |
47.28 |
1.0182 |
-0.0148 |
177 |
1 |
47.28 |
2022-04-19 |
48. |
I'm just not the guy for you. I mean, you need a guy who's h... |
47.04 |
1.0574 |
-0.0591 |
207 |
1 |
47.04 |
2023-07-28 |
49. |
You once told me you never lied to me and you never will. So... |
46.88 |
1.0459 |
-0.0510 |
178 |
1 |
46.88 |
2022-03-07 |
50. |
They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, ... |
46.79 |
1.0271 |
-0.0341 |
250 |
1 |
46.79 |
2025-06-20 |
51. |
Even if there's only one actual truth, you can have two trut... |
46.56 |
1.0293 |
-0.0412 |
284 |
1 |
46.56 |
2022-11-07 |
52. |
Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in... |
46.34 |
1.0330 |
-0.0496 |
214 |
1 |
46.34 |
2022-05-20 |
53. |
I thought I had it all together, but I was led astray the da... |
46.33 |
1.0513 |
-0.0681 |
176 |
1 |
46.33 |
2022-11-02 |
54. |
The big final rule for the comma is one that you won't find ... |
45.92 |
1.0121 |
-0.0376 |
323 |
1 |
45.92 |
2022-04-06 |
55. |
I'll live on and carry your name, and be what you always tho... |
45.87 |
1.0178 |
-0.0443 |
163 |
1 |
45.87 |
2022-05-02 |
56. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
45.87 |
1.0673 |
-0.0938 |
230 |
1 |
45.87 |
2025-06-19 |
57. |
Very often research which has deeply interested me while I w... |
45.86 |
1.0242 |
-0.0509 |
296 |
1 |
45.86 |
2022-05-20 |
58. |
Look into my eyes and it's easy to see, one and one make two... |
45.75 |
1.0716 |
-0.1007 |
214 |
1 |
45.75 |
2022-03-07 |
59. |
If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall, or the ... |
45.19 |
1.0504 |
-0.0914 |
165 |
1 |
45.19 |
2022-04-08 |
60. |
There is more than one kind of freedom: freedom to and freed... |
45.06 |
1.0024 |
-0.0461 |
169 |
1 |
45.06 |
2022-03-07 |
61. |
Not only do we come into fairly regular contact with people ... |
45.06 |
1.0475 |
-0.0912 |
253 |
1 |
45.06 |
2022-04-06 |
62. |
This was supposed to be a question. Not a poem, confession o... |
44.36 |
1.0612 |
-0.1198 |
163 |
1 |
44.36 |
2022-05-20 |
63. |
Power don't come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lyi... |
44.15 |
1.0122 |
-0.0752 |
240 |
1 |
44.15 |
2022-05-06 |
64. |
Any sufficiently advanced technique is, to the layperson, in... |
44.02 |
0.8056 |
0.1286 |
87 |
1 |
44.02 |
2022-04-19 |
65. |
I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire... |
44.01 |
1.0503 |
-0.1163 |
229 |
1 |
44.01 |
2022-04-05 |
66. |
By now, I assume you know your father's been accused of a ve... |
44.00 |
1.0108 |
-0.0770 |
309 |
1 |
44.00 |
2022-05-20 |
67. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
43.95 |
0.9464 |
-0.0137 |
323 |
1 |
43.95 |
2022-05-20 |
68. |
Although reflection mapping can be used to produce a number ... |
43.77 |
0.9815 |
-0.0526 |
300 |
1 |
43.77 |
2022-03-23 |
69. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
43.63 |
0.9128 |
0.0131 |
369 |
1 |
43.63 |
2023-07-26 |
70. |
Here's what I think happened: the old man heard the fight be... |
43.33 |
1.0336 |
-0.1140 |
353 |
1 |
43.33 |
2022-05-20 |
71. |
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where ... |
43.32 |
1.0723 |
-0.1529 |
113 |
1 |
43.32 |
2022-03-23 |
72. |
Now, men, in conclusion, I would like to say that, in the tw... |
42.69 |
1.0509 |
-0.1449 |
311 |
1 |
42.69 |
2022-03-21 |
73. |
So, tell me pretty lies, look me in my face. Tell me that yo... |
42.48 |
1.0661 |
-0.1646 |
201 |
1 |
42.48 |
2022-04-05 |
74. |
What isn't clear is why people always say "goes without sayi... |
42.00 |
0.9651 |
-0.0738 |
146 |
1 |
42.00 |
2022-03-15 |
75. |
And this is it. This is a portable cellular phone. You'll be... |
41.69 |
1.0038 |
-0.1190 |
233 |
1 |
41.69 |
2022-03-08 |
76. |
In the company I work for, they won't let you say anybody's ... |
41.47 |
0.8844 |
-0.0043 |
258 |
1 |
41.47 |
2023-07-26 |
77. |
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another ... |
41.34 |
1.0611 |
-0.1838 |
207 |
1 |
41.34 |
2022-05-20 |
78. |
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a ch... |
41.19 |
1.0118 |
-0.1376 |
250 |
1 |
41.19 |
2022-05-02 |
79. |
I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adv... |
41.00 |
0.9739 |
-0.1038 |
163 |
1 |
41.00 |
2022-03-23 |
80. |
Is that what your little note says? It must be hard living y... |
40.95 |
1.0104 |
-0.1413 |
201 |
1 |
40.95 |
2022-03-08 |
81. |
The moon belongs to everyone; the best things in life are fr... |
40.81 |
1.0652 |
-0.1991 |
292 |
1 |
40.81 |
2022-03-15 |
82. |
It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to ... |
40.56 |
1.0228 |
-0.1620 |
215 |
1 |
40.56 |
2022-04-06 |
83. |
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice ... |
39.64 |
1.0375 |
-0.1962 |
224 |
1 |
39.64 |
2022-03-23 |
84. |
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so o... |
39.42 |
1.0278 |
-0.1912 |
337 |
1 |
39.42 |
2022-03-23 |
85. |
From my laboratory in the castle east to the master bedroom ... |
38.62 |
0.9658 |
-0.1462 |
164 |
1 |
38.62 |
2022-04-06 |
86. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
38.23 |
1.0068 |
-0.1955 |
358 |
1 |
38.23 |
2022-03-21 |
87. |
So don't be afraid; your heart is in me, and it's racing so ... |
36.85 |
0.9833 |
-0.2013 |
150 |
1 |
36.85 |
2022-03-08 |
88. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
36.51 |
0.9925 |
-0.2177 |
247 |
1 |
36.51 |
2022-05-02 |