| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
169.82 |
1.0352 |
0.1715 |
341 |
1 |
169.82 |
2014-03-02 |
| 2. |
I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don... |
164.70 |
1.0980 |
0.0716 |
158 |
1 |
164.70 |
2022-01-07 |
| 3. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
161.79 |
1.1215 |
0.0531 |
200 |
1 |
161.79 |
2014-05-06 |
| 4. |
Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad.... |
161.64 |
1.0458 |
0.1026 |
336 |
1 |
161.64 |
2020-12-19 |
| 5. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
161.28 |
0.9612 |
0.1838 |
256 |
4 |
150.42 |
2014-03-02 |
| 6. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
160.39 |
1.0667 |
0.1052 |
406 |
3 |
145.53 |
2020-12-19 |
| 7. |
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly f... |
160.12 |
1.1605 |
-0.0281 |
145 |
1 |
160.12 |
2020-09-30 |
| 8. |
Again, I go back to the working really hard to get someone e... |
160.00 |
1.0624 |
0.0720 |
249 |
1 |
160.00 |
2021-03-10 |
| 9. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
159.68 |
0.9795 |
0.1533 |
308 |
1 |
159.68 |
2014-03-02 |
| 10. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
159.49 |
0.9509 |
0.2189 |
225 |
1 |
159.49 |
2014-03-02 |
| 11. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
159.31 |
0.9769 |
0.1521 |
263 |
1 |
159.31 |
2014-03-02 |
| 12. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
159.29 |
1.0477 |
0.0832 |
360 |
2 |
152.09 |
2014-03-02 |
| 13. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
158.70 |
1.0799 |
0.0432 |
243 |
1 |
158.70 |
2014-03-02 |
| 14. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
158.13 |
1.0968 |
0.0569 |
365 |
1 |
158.13 |
2014-03-01 |
| 15. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
157.76 |
0.9863 |
0.1347 |
339 |
1 |
157.76 |
2014-03-02 |
| 16. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
156.85 |
1.0073 |
0.1085 |
369 |
1 |
156.85 |
2014-03-01 |
| 17. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
156.53 |
1.0528 |
0.0553 |
201 |
2 |
153.89 |
2014-03-02 |
| 18. |
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the s... |
156.13 |
1.0176 |
0.0936 |
442 |
1 |
156.13 |
2021-03-10 |
| 19. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
155.63 |
1.0426 |
0.0616 |
323 |
1 |
155.63 |
2014-03-01 |
| 20. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
155.43 |
1.0621 |
0.0629 |
263 |
1 |
155.43 |
2014-03-02 |
| 21. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
154.89 |
0.9899 |
0.1059 |
163 |
1 |
154.89 |
2014-03-02 |
| 22. |
I sense there's something in the wind. That feels like trage... |
154.77 |
1.0887 |
-0.0283 |
285 |
1 |
154.77 |
2022-01-07 |
| 23. |
He was a polished jazz player, whose poverty had less to do ... |
154.77 |
1.0170 |
0.0773 |
308 |
1 |
154.77 |
2022-01-07 |
| 24. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
154.62 |
1.1114 |
-0.0165 |
247 |
2 |
153.76 |
2014-03-02 |
| 25. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
154.41 |
1.0203 |
0.0768 |
261 |
1 |
154.41 |
2021-03-10 |
| 26. |
I can't be alone here, I can't be the only one who feels lik... |
153.99 |
1.0416 |
0.0488 |
344 |
1 |
153.99 |
2022-01-07 |
| 27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
152.94 |
1.0613 |
0.0235 |
266 |
1 |
152.94 |
2014-03-02 |
| 28. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
152.50 |
1.0013 |
0.0797 |
273 |
2 |
149.24 |
2021-03-10 |
| 29. |
Hah, well, yeah, but I don't think you're gonna fit through ... |
152.48 |
0.9488 |
0.1273 |
201 |
1 |
152.48 |
2020-12-19 |
| 30. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
151.38 |
1.0483 |
0.0231 |
227 |
1 |
151.38 |
2014-05-06 |
| 31. |
In 12th-century Pisa, Italy, the construction firm of Morrel... |
150.97 |
0.8982 |
0.1709 |
219 |
1 |
150.97 |
2020-12-19 |
| 32. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
150.94 |
0.9697 |
0.1015 |
249 |
1 |
150.94 |
2014-02-11 |
| 33. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
150.71 |
1.0390 |
0.0269 |
205 |
1 |
150.71 |
2014-03-01 |
| 34. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
150.45 |
0.9905 |
0.0798 |
377 |
1 |
150.45 |
2014-05-06 |
| 35. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
150.32 |
1.0515 |
0.0130 |
250 |
1 |
150.32 |
2014-03-02 |
| 36. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
150.29 |
1.0944 |
0.0139 |
308 |
1 |
150.29 |
2014-03-02 |
| 37. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
149.19 |
1.0388 |
0.0513 |
243 |
1 |
149.19 |
2014-03-01 |
| 38. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
149.05 |
0.9805 |
0.0782 |
292 |
1 |
149.05 |
2014-03-02 |
| 39. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
148.62 |
1.0398 |
0.0078 |
110 |
3 |
137.73 |
2014-03-02 |
| 40. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
148.40 |
0.9601 |
0.0939 |
308 |
2 |
145.57 |
2014-03-02 |
| 41. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
148.33 |
0.9289 |
0.1219 |
204 |
1 |
148.33 |
2014-03-02 |
| 42. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
147.97 |
1.0034 |
0.0448 |
302 |
1 |
147.97 |
2014-03-02 |
| 43. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
147.50 |
0.9881 |
0.0938 |
424 |
1 |
147.50 |
2014-05-06 |
| 44. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
147.28 |
0.9084 |
0.1380 |
404 |
1 |
147.28 |
2014-03-02 |
| 45. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
147.17 |
1.0567 |
-0.0126 |
303 |
1 |
147.17 |
2014-03-01 |
| 46. |
Sally and I did not know what to say. Should we tell her the... |
146.80 |
1.0646 |
-0.0266 |
199 |
1 |
146.80 |
2020-12-19 |
| 47. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
146.66 |
0.9176 |
0.1541 |
267 |
1 |
146.66 |
2014-03-02 |
| 48. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
146.26 |
1.0725 |
-0.0074 |
233 |
1 |
146.26 |
2014-03-01 |
| 49. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
146.17 |
1.0595 |
-0.0227 |
379 |
1 |
146.17 |
2014-03-01 |
| 50. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
146.08 |
0.9513 |
0.0860 |
354 |
1 |
146.08 |
2014-02-11 |
| 51. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
145.47 |
0.8753 |
0.1607 |
427 |
1 |
145.47 |
2014-03-02 |
| 52. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
145.36 |
0.9202 |
0.1106 |
254 |
1 |
145.36 |
2014-03-02 |
| 53. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
145.25 |
1.0068 |
0.0244 |
358 |
1 |
145.25 |
2014-02-11 |
| 54. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
145.06 |
0.9879 |
0.0440 |
450 |
1 |
145.06 |
2014-05-06 |
| 55. |
You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete trad... |
144.89 |
0.9757 |
0.0526 |
142 |
1 |
144.89 |
2020-06-04 |
| 56. |
Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb ... |
144.50 |
1.0245 |
-0.0027 |
252 |
1 |
144.50 |
2020-06-04 |
| 57. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
144.29 |
1.0270 |
0.0312 |
255 |
1 |
144.29 |
2014-03-02 |
| 58. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
144.21 |
1.0025 |
0.0198 |
336 |
1 |
144.21 |
2014-02-11 |
| 59. |
You make me sick. You're a quitter, Norman! No, you're worse... |
144.17 |
1.0338 |
-0.0104 |
606 |
1 |
144.17 |
2020-08-10 |
| 60. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
143.95 |
1.1296 |
-0.0776 |
252 |
1 |
143.95 |
2014-03-02 |
| 61. |
Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired... |
143.90 |
0.9461 |
0.0731 |
149 |
1 |
143.90 |
2020-09-30 |
| 62. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
143.25 |
0.9942 |
0.0241 |
483 |
1 |
143.25 |
2014-03-02 |
| 63. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
142.94 |
1.0883 |
-0.0428 |
303 |
1 |
142.94 |
2014-03-02 |
| 64. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
142.87 |
0.9351 |
0.0745 |
190 |
2 |
124.46 |
2014-03-02 |
| 65. |
There's lots to see. Nothin' to block your view. Like the mo... |
142.47 |
0.9046 |
0.0982 |
329 |
1 |
142.47 |
2020-06-04 |
| 66. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
142.32 |
0.9871 |
0.0453 |
227 |
2 |
135.05 |
2014-03-02 |
| 67. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
142.02 |
1.0523 |
-0.0478 |
256 |
1 |
142.02 |
2016-07-21 |
| 68. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
141.72 |
1.0379 |
0.0035 |
245 |
1 |
141.72 |
2014-03-02 |
| 69. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
141.58 |
0.9898 |
0.0471 |
353 |
1 |
141.58 |
2014-03-02 |
| 70. |
Crying wolf? You listen to me, you idiot! My child is sick. ... |
141.18 |
0.9475 |
0.0495 |
237 |
1 |
141.18 |
2020-09-30 |
| 71. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
141.03 |
0.9792 |
0.0578 |
265 |
1 |
141.03 |
2014-03-02 |
| 72. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
140.42 |
0.9946 |
-0.0005 |
246 |
1 |
140.42 |
2014-03-02 |
| 73. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
140.18 |
0.9383 |
0.0711 |
471 |
1 |
140.18 |
2014-03-02 |
| 74. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
140.15 |
1.0561 |
-0.0452 |
430 |
1 |
140.15 |
2014-03-02 |
| 75. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
140.12 |
1.0337 |
-0.0423 |
214 |
2 |
133.50 |
2014-03-01 |
| 76. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
140.01 |
1.0498 |
-0.0608 |
180 |
1 |
140.01 |
2014-03-02 |
| 77. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
139.63 |
0.9681 |
0.0248 |
378 |
1 |
139.63 |
2014-02-11 |
| 78. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
139.42 |
1.0521 |
-0.0669 |
171 |
1 |
139.42 |
2014-02-11 |
| 79. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
139.02 |
1.0033 |
-0.0219 |
189 |
1 |
139.02 |
2014-03-02 |
| 80. |
Now, that's 200 dollars, dead or alive. I'm aware this is pr... |
139.00 |
0.8825 |
0.1081 |
524 |
1 |
139.00 |
2020-06-04 |
| 81. |
Me? Not at all. Remember: I'll do the talking. You sit there... |
138.81 |
0.8930 |
0.0901 |
271 |
1 |
138.81 |
2020-09-30 |
| 82. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
138.67 |
1.0385 |
-0.0571 |
230 |
1 |
138.67 |
2014-03-02 |
| 83. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
138.06 |
0.9852 |
-0.0073 |
264 |
1 |
138.06 |
2014-03-02 |
| 84. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
137.87 |
0.8958 |
0.0833 |
322 |
1 |
137.87 |
2014-03-01 |
| 85. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
137.76 |
0.9904 |
0.0274 |
203 |
1 |
137.76 |
2014-03-02 |
| 86. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
137.52 |
0.9894 |
-0.0132 |
323 |
1 |
137.52 |
2014-02-11 |
| 87. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
137.02 |
1.0331 |
-0.0649 |
234 |
1 |
137.02 |
2020-06-05 |
| 88. |
It is known that many of the germs which cause diseases cann... |
136.95 |
1.0309 |
-0.0593 |
483 |
1 |
136.95 |
2021-03-10 |
| 89. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
136.90 |
0.9763 |
-0.0066 |
289 |
1 |
136.90 |
2014-02-11 |
| 90. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
136.60 |
0.9176 |
0.0849 |
365 |
1 |
136.60 |
2014-03-02 |
| 91. |
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my ... |
136.52 |
1.0319 |
-0.0690 |
378 |
1 |
136.52 |
2020-12-19 |
| 92. |
One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with... |
136.37 |
1.0290 |
-0.0435 |
250 |
1 |
136.37 |
2020-06-04 |
| 93. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
135.82 |
0.9529 |
0.0490 |
269 |
1 |
135.82 |
2014-02-11 |
| 94. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
135.38 |
1.0608 |
-0.0673 |
258 |
1 |
135.38 |
2014-03-02 |
| 95. |
Life is a minestrone served up with parmesan cheese. Death i... |
135.32 |
0.9186 |
0.0380 |
219 |
1 |
135.32 |
2020-12-19 |
| 96. |
The core-periphery hierarchy in the modern world-system is a... |
135.30 |
0.9108 |
0.0487 |
492 |
1 |
135.30 |
2020-06-04 |
| 97. |
I cannot define what I mean by 'intuition'. It is simply wha... |
134.98 |
0.9047 |
0.0545 |
305 |
1 |
134.98 |
2020-09-30 |
| 98. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
134.48 |
0.9570 |
-0.0040 |
287 |
1 |
134.48 |
2014-02-11 |
| 99. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
133.84 |
0.8553 |
0.0905 |
174 |
1 |
133.84 |
2014-03-02 |
| 100. |
And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on sayin... |
133.63 |
0.8689 |
0.0716 |
269 |
1 |
133.63 |
2020-06-04 |
| 101. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
133.38 |
0.9907 |
-0.0472 |
211 |
1 |
133.38 |
2014-02-11 |
| 102. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
133.28 |
1.0387 |
-0.0634 |
239 |
1 |
133.28 |
2014-02-11 |
| 103. |
Almost heaven, West Virginia. Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenando... |
133.05 |
0.8759 |
0.0629 |
270 |
1 |
133.05 |
2020-12-19 |
| 104. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
132.36 |
0.9976 |
-0.0380 |
174 |
1 |
132.36 |
2014-03-02 |
| 105. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
132.26 |
0.9567 |
-0.0203 |
273 |
1 |
132.26 |
2014-03-02 |
| 106. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
132.02 |
0.8916 |
0.0434 |
216 |
1 |
132.02 |
2014-02-11 |
| 107. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
130.11 |
0.9376 |
0.0159 |
360 |
1 |
130.11 |
2014-05-06 |
| 108. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
130.04 |
0.9665 |
0.0023 |
326 |
1 |
130.04 |
2014-03-02 |
| 109. |
I'm a beatbox rocker. And you're dancing to my beat. I'm a b... |
129.82 |
0.9563 |
-0.0417 |
208 |
1 |
129.82 |
2020-12-19 |
| 110. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
129.13 |
1.0349 |
-0.1217 |
234 |
1 |
129.13 |
2014-03-02 |
| 111. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
128.68 |
1.0320 |
-0.0819 |
293 |
1 |
128.68 |
2014-02-11 |
| 112. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
127.77 |
0.9359 |
0.0026 |
353 |
1 |
127.77 |
2014-02-11 |
| 113. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
127.48 |
0.9740 |
-0.0735 |
209 |
1 |
127.48 |
2014-03-02 |
| 114. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
127.29 |
1.0232 |
-0.0861 |
236 |
1 |
127.29 |
2014-02-11 |
| 115. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
126.67 |
1.0060 |
-0.1121 |
171 |
1 |
126.67 |
2014-02-11 |
| 116. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
125.48 |
0.9155 |
0.0183 |
168 |
1 |
125.48 |
2014-03-01 |
| 117. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
124.13 |
1.0183 |
-0.1429 |
191 |
1 |
124.13 |
2014-02-11 |
| 118. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
123.93 |
0.9966 |
-0.1199 |
259 |
1 |
123.93 |
2014-03-01 |
| 119. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
123.67 |
0.9786 |
-0.1056 |
193 |
1 |
123.67 |
2014-03-02 |
| 120. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
122.62 |
0.9758 |
-0.1081 |
314 |
1 |
122.62 |
2014-03-01 |
| 121. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
120.93 |
0.9710 |
-0.1187 |
173 |
1 |
120.93 |
2014-02-11 |
| 122. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
120.26 |
1.0211 |
-0.1383 |
213 |
1 |
120.26 |
2014-02-11 |
| 123. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
119.86 |
0.9843 |
-0.1389 |
234 |
1 |
119.86 |
2014-03-02 |
| 124. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
116.88 |
0.8919 |
-0.0658 |
205 |
2 |
115.85 |
2014-02-11 |
| 125. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
116.64 |
1.1022 |
-0.2424 |
259 |
1 |
116.64 |
2014-03-01 |
| 126. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
115.93 |
1.0141 |
-0.1585 |
381 |
1 |
115.93 |
2014-03-02 |
| 127. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
114.59 |
1.0396 |
-0.2337 |
149 |
1 |
114.59 |
2014-02-11 |
| 128. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
114.02 |
0.9676 |
-0.1577 |
442 |
1 |
114.02 |
2014-02-11 |
| 129. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
113.05 |
0.9275 |
-0.1299 |
211 |
1 |
113.05 |
2014-03-02 |
| 130. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
107.25 |
0.9731 |
-0.2213 |
129 |
1 |
107.25 |
2020-06-05 |
| 131. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
106.55 |
0.9672 |
-0.2119 |
396 |
1 |
106.55 |
2014-03-02 |
| 132. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
105.95 |
1.0516 |
-0.3035 |
281 |
1 |
105.95 |
2014-05-06 |
| 133. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
78.11 |
1.0189 |
-0.4684 |
337 |
1 |
78.11 |
2014-05-06 |
| 134. |
You don't know what's in store, but you know what you're her... |
69.87 |
1.1193 |
-0.6369 |
66 |
1 |
69.87 |
2020-12-19 |