| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
155.89 |
1.0943 |
0.2064 |
206 |
1 |
155.89 |
2011-10-05 |
| 2. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
152.80 |
1.0905 |
0.1838 |
210 |
1 |
152.80 |
2011-10-06 |
| 3. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
152.36 |
1.0412 |
0.1975 |
225 |
2 |
141.33 |
2011-10-16 |
| 4. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
152.18 |
1.0993 |
0.1363 |
265 |
1 |
152.18 |
2011-09-16 |
| 5. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
145.97 |
1.0095 |
0.1760 |
316 |
3 |
131.89 |
2011-10-06 |
| 6. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
143.80 |
1.1296 |
0.0683 |
252 |
1 |
143.80 |
2011-10-06 |
| 7. |
Spend all your time waiting for that second chance, for a br... |
142.27 |
1.1309 |
0.0240 |
176 |
1 |
142.27 |
2020-04-18 |
| 8. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
139.12 |
1.0060 |
0.1197 |
171 |
1 |
139.12 |
2011-09-16 |
| 9. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
138.74 |
1.0883 |
0.0711 |
303 |
2 |
129.75 |
2011-10-03 |
| 10. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
138.69 |
1.0023 |
0.1225 |
211 |
1 |
138.69 |
2011-10-05 |
| 11. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
138.47 |
0.9976 |
0.1477 |
174 |
1 |
138.47 |
2011-09-29 |
| 12. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
138.27 |
1.0316 |
0.0957 |
333 |
1 |
138.27 |
2011-10-15 |
| 13. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
138.20 |
1.0666 |
0.0564 |
297 |
1 |
138.20 |
2011-10-05 |
| 14. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
137.92 |
1.0214 |
0.0938 |
166 |
2 |
103.40 |
2011-10-15 |
| 15. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
137.90 |
1.0109 |
0.1424 |
400 |
2 |
131.01 |
2011-09-30 |
| 16. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
137.61 |
1.0662 |
0.0894 |
407 |
1 |
137.61 |
2011-10-05 |
| 17. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
137.56 |
1.0547 |
0.0975 |
257 |
3 |
132.04 |
2011-10-05 |
| 18. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
136.02 |
1.0711 |
0.0288 |
213 |
1 |
136.02 |
2011-09-28 |
| 19. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
134.75 |
1.0352 |
0.0625 |
341 |
1 |
134.75 |
2011-10-04 |
| 20. |
It was a merry journey with Tom Bombadil trotting gaily besi... |
134.42 |
0.9253 |
0.1087 |
342 |
1 |
134.42 |
2020-04-18 |
| 21. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
134.34 |
1.0502 |
0.0674 |
535 |
1 |
134.34 |
2011-10-03 |
| 22. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
134.20 |
1.0515 |
0.0366 |
250 |
2 |
133.88 |
2011-10-05 |
| 23. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
134.12 |
1.0346 |
0.0967 |
244 |
1 |
134.12 |
2011-10-06 |
| 24. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
134.02 |
0.9566 |
0.1545 |
576 |
2 |
125.01 |
2011-10-10 |
| 25. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
133.98 |
1.0201 |
0.0684 |
303 |
1 |
133.98 |
2011-10-07 |
| 26. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
133.17 |
0.9899 |
0.0869 |
163 |
1 |
133.17 |
2011-10-14 |
| 27. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
132.57 |
0.9723 |
0.1080 |
364 |
2 |
118.45 |
2011-09-29 |
| 28. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
131.73 |
1.0177 |
0.0901 |
392 |
1 |
131.73 |
2011-09-29 |
| 29. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
131.20 |
1.0365 |
0.0585 |
162 |
1 |
131.20 |
2011-09-16 |
| 30. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
131.13 |
0.9965 |
0.0685 |
310 |
2 |
125.96 |
2011-10-05 |
| 31. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
131.11 |
1.0288 |
0.0678 |
300 |
1 |
131.11 |
2011-10-05 |
| 32. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
131.03 |
1.0213 |
0.0396 |
240 |
2 |
130.08 |
2011-10-05 |
| 33. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
130.79 |
0.9769 |
0.0830 |
263 |
1 |
130.79 |
2011-09-16 |
| 34. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
130.25 |
1.0454 |
0.0085 |
255 |
1 |
130.25 |
2011-09-21 |
| 35. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
130.00 |
1.0388 |
0.0484 |
243 |
1 |
130.00 |
2011-10-06 |
| 36. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
129.94 |
1.0429 |
0.0106 |
259 |
1 |
129.94 |
2011-10-04 |
| 37. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
129.68 |
1.1323 |
-0.0459 |
341 |
1 |
129.68 |
2011-10-06 |
| 38. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
129.67 |
1.0131 |
0.0356 |
225 |
2 |
127.47 |
2011-10-06 |
| 39. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
129.11 |
1.0165 |
0.0355 |
392 |
1 |
129.11 |
2011-09-29 |
| 40. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
128.95 |
1.0534 |
-0.0042 |
357 |
1 |
128.95 |
2011-10-05 |
| 41. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
128.87 |
1.0337 |
0.0118 |
214 |
1 |
128.87 |
2011-10-05 |
| 42. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
128.75 |
1.1114 |
-0.0689 |
247 |
2 |
121.02 |
2011-10-15 |
| 43. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
128.57 |
1.0725 |
-0.0032 |
233 |
2 |
122.08 |
2011-10-03 |
| 44. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
127.94 |
0.9851 |
0.0558 |
317 |
1 |
127.94 |
2011-10-15 |
| 45. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
127.72 |
1.0485 |
0.0227 |
153 |
1 |
127.72 |
2011-10-15 |
| 46. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
127.56 |
0.9786 |
0.0563 |
235 |
1 |
127.56 |
2011-10-03 |
| 47. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
127.01 |
0.9863 |
0.0490 |
339 |
1 |
127.01 |
2011-10-05 |
| 48. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
126.79 |
0.9612 |
0.0680 |
256 |
1 |
126.79 |
2011-10-05 |
| 49. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
126.43 |
1.0417 |
-0.0181 |
253 |
1 |
126.43 |
2011-10-06 |
| 50. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
125.95 |
1.0396 |
-0.0247 |
149 |
1 |
125.95 |
2011-10-14 |
| 51. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
125.64 |
1.0644 |
-0.0087 |
257 |
3 |
111.46 |
2011-10-15 |
| 52. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
125.55 |
0.9986 |
0.0208 |
283 |
1 |
125.55 |
2011-10-05 |
| 53. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
125.50 |
0.9946 |
0.0239 |
246 |
1 |
125.50 |
2011-10-05 |
| 54. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
125.41 |
1.0619 |
-0.0406 |
354 |
1 |
125.41 |
2011-10-05 |
| 55. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
124.43 |
1.0385 |
-0.0305 |
230 |
1 |
124.43 |
2011-10-06 |
| 56. |
I'm a good man, food on the table, working two jobs, ready w... |
124.23 |
0.9738 |
0.0080 |
454 |
1 |
124.23 |
2020-04-18 |
| 57. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
124.05 |
0.9049 |
0.1071 |
351 |
1 |
124.05 |
2011-09-16 |
| 58. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
123.08 |
0.9351 |
0.0580 |
190 |
1 |
123.08 |
2011-10-07 |
| 59. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
122.90 |
0.8947 |
0.1075 |
366 |
1 |
122.90 |
2011-10-03 |
| 60. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
122.88 |
1.0941 |
-0.0659 |
256 |
1 |
122.88 |
2011-10-03 |
| 61. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
122.83 |
1.0441 |
-0.0461 |
252 |
1 |
122.83 |
2011-10-05 |
| 62. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
122.67 |
0.9965 |
-0.0007 |
277 |
1 |
122.67 |
2011-10-05 |
| 63. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
121.87 |
0.9687 |
0.0246 |
371 |
1 |
121.87 |
2011-10-06 |
| 64. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
121.69 |
1.0677 |
-0.0505 |
284 |
1 |
121.69 |
2020-04-18 |
| 65. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
121.59 |
0.9005 |
0.0844 |
212 |
1 |
121.59 |
2011-10-05 |
| 66. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
120.94 |
0.8595 |
0.1232 |
242 |
1 |
120.94 |
2011-10-04 |
| 67. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
120.88 |
0.9937 |
0.0118 |
429 |
1 |
120.88 |
2011-10-15 |
| 68. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
120.78 |
1.0150 |
0.0138 |
325 |
1 |
120.78 |
2011-09-28 |
| 69. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
120.44 |
0.9529 |
0.0645 |
269 |
1 |
120.44 |
2011-09-16 |
| 70. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
120.12 |
1.0787 |
-0.1058 |
237 |
1 |
120.12 |
2011-10-05 |
| 71. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
120.08 |
0.9916 |
0.0250 |
282 |
1 |
120.08 |
2011-09-27 |
| 72. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
120.02 |
1.0053 |
-0.0338 |
232 |
2 |
118.57 |
2011-10-06 |
| 73. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
119.99 |
0.9780 |
-0.0037 |
337 |
1 |
119.99 |
2011-09-29 |
| 74. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
119.83 |
1.0251 |
-0.0554 |
261 |
1 |
119.83 |
2011-09-28 |
| 75. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
119.76 |
0.9631 |
0.0595 |
345 |
1 |
119.76 |
2011-09-22 |
| 76. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
119.56 |
1.0125 |
-0.0452 |
224 |
1 |
119.56 |
2011-10-15 |
| 77. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
119.35 |
1.0038 |
-0.0056 |
237 |
1 |
119.35 |
2011-10-05 |
| 78. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
118.19 |
1.0885 |
-0.0952 |
341 |
1 |
118.19 |
2011-10-05 |
| 79. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
117.76 |
0.9084 |
0.0504 |
404 |
2 |
115.71 |
2011-10-27 |
| 80. |
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast ... |
117.40 |
1.0260 |
-0.0861 |
253 |
1 |
117.40 |
2020-04-18 |
| 81. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
117.38 |
1.0390 |
-0.0910 |
205 |
1 |
117.38 |
2011-10-15 |
| 82. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
117.36 |
1.0203 |
-0.0654 |
261 |
1 |
117.36 |
2011-10-05 |
| 83. |
This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end, my only ... |
116.92 |
0.9965 |
-0.0469 |
215 |
1 |
116.92 |
2020-04-18 |
| 84. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
116.77 |
0.9898 |
-0.0055 |
353 |
1 |
116.77 |
2011-10-06 |
| 85. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
116.14 |
0.9881 |
-0.0061 |
424 |
1 |
116.14 |
2011-09-22 |
| 86. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
115.98 |
0.9286 |
0.0106 |
194 |
1 |
115.98 |
2011-10-15 |
| 87. |
It's close to midnight, something evil's lurking in the dark... |
115.71 |
1.0239 |
-0.0982 |
275 |
1 |
115.71 |
2020-04-18 |
| 88. |
My father died on this floor. Right there. Stabbed 27 times,... |
115.71 |
0.9439 |
-0.0386 |
248 |
1 |
115.71 |
2020-04-18 |
| 89. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
114.54 |
0.9635 |
-0.0295 |
389 |
1 |
114.54 |
2011-10-05 |
| 90. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
114.28 |
0.9532 |
-0.0282 |
258 |
1 |
114.28 |
2011-09-21 |
| 91. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
113.96 |
0.9636 |
-0.0400 |
254 |
1 |
113.96 |
2011-09-29 |
| 92. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
113.80 |
0.9754 |
-0.0469 |
362 |
1 |
113.80 |
2011-10-05 |
| 93. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
113.80 |
0.9553 |
-0.0257 |
430 |
3 |
112.37 |
2011-10-06 |
| 94. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
113.26 |
0.8826 |
0.0368 |
296 |
1 |
113.26 |
2011-10-15 |
| 95. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
112.15 |
0.9795 |
-0.0707 |
308 |
1 |
112.15 |
2011-09-30 |
| 96. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
112.05 |
0.9649 |
-0.0581 |
193 |
1 |
112.05 |
2011-09-21 |
| 97. |
I've been quite open about this around the office: I don't w... |
112.04 |
0.9770 |
-0.1047 |
294 |
1 |
112.04 |
2020-04-18 |
| 98. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
110.76 |
0.9966 |
-0.0998 |
259 |
1 |
110.76 |
2011-09-30 |
| 99. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
110.67 |
0.9622 |
-0.0592 |
392 |
1 |
110.67 |
2011-10-05 |
| 100. |
Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Wa... |
110.31 |
0.9337 |
-0.0665 |
208 |
1 |
110.31 |
2020-04-18 |
| 101. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
110.15 |
0.9266 |
-0.0343 |
267 |
1 |
110.15 |
2011-09-22 |
| 102. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
109.58 |
0.8775 |
0.0135 |
443 |
1 |
109.58 |
2011-10-06 |
| 103. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
109.51 |
0.9087 |
-0.0110 |
393 |
1 |
109.51 |
2011-10-06 |
| 104. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
108.84 |
0.9597 |
-0.0740 |
347 |
1 |
108.84 |
2011-09-28 |
| 105. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
108.69 |
0.9676 |
-0.0789 |
442 |
1 |
108.69 |
2011-10-04 |
| 106. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
107.82 |
0.9672 |
-0.0875 |
396 |
1 |
107.82 |
2011-10-15 |
| 107. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
106.53 |
1.0088 |
-0.1075 |
396 |
1 |
106.53 |
2011-10-27 |
| 108. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
105.19 |
0.9164 |
-0.0599 |
305 |
1 |
105.19 |
2011-10-06 |
| 109. |
First in my class here at MIT. Got skills, I'm a champion of... |
104.66 |
0.7821 |
0.0432 |
298 |
1 |
104.66 |
2020-04-18 |
| 110. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
104.58 |
0.9843 |
-0.1427 |
234 |
1 |
104.58 |
2011-10-04 |
| 111. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
104.54 |
0.8890 |
-0.0464 |
199 |
1 |
104.54 |
2020-04-18 |
| 112. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
103.78 |
0.9278 |
-0.0852 |
295 |
1 |
103.78 |
2011-09-16 |
| 113. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
103.57 |
1.0349 |
-0.1973 |
234 |
1 |
103.57 |
2011-10-10 |
| 114. |
Time is a tool you can put on the wall or wear it on your wr... |
103.50 |
1.0197 |
-0.2128 |
393 |
1 |
103.50 |
2020-04-18 |
| 115. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
103.24 |
0.9485 |
-0.1113 |
236 |
1 |
103.24 |
2011-10-06 |
| 116. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
103.19 |
1.0197 |
-0.1877 |
226 |
1 |
103.19 |
2011-10-06 |
| 117. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
102.41 |
1.0063 |
-0.1772 |
371 |
1 |
102.41 |
2011-10-07 |
| 118. |
Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is ... |
102.40 |
1.0706 |
-0.2312 |
532 |
1 |
102.40 |
2020-04-18 |
| 119. |
You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally str... |
100.34 |
0.9921 |
-0.1984 |
451 |
1 |
100.34 |
2020-04-18 |
| 120. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
98.97 |
1.0343 |
-0.1966 |
242 |
1 |
98.97 |
2011-10-03 |
| 121. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
96.30 |
0.9583 |
-0.1361 |
341 |
1 |
96.30 |
2011-10-06 |
| 122. |
It's the loneliest feeling in the world to find yourself sta... |
95.53 |
0.9582 |
-0.2266 |
435 |
1 |
95.53 |
2020-04-18 |
| 123. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
95.40 |
0.9910 |
-0.2178 |
295 |
1 |
95.40 |
2011-10-05 |
| 124. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
94.27 |
1.0669 |
-0.2724 |
213 |
1 |
94.27 |
2011-10-15 |
| 125. |
You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonel... |
90.46 |
1.0724 |
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369 |
1 |
90.46 |
2020-04-18 |
| 126. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
84.86 |
0.9792 |
-0.2563 |
265 |
1 |
84.86 |
2011-10-15 |