| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
138.45 |
1.1114 |
0.0839 |
247 |
2 |
118.83 |
2012-12-01 |
| 2. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
137.87 |
1.0292 |
0.1624 |
262 |
1 |
137.87 |
2013-06-23 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
134.34 |
1.1016 |
0.0602 |
233 |
1 |
134.34 |
2012-12-28 |
| 4. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
133.56 |
0.9161 |
0.2368 |
200 |
1 |
133.56 |
2013-06-23 |
| 5. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
132.84 |
1.0381 |
0.1000 |
170 |
1 |
132.84 |
2013-01-27 |
| 6. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
132.14 |
1.0577 |
0.0815 |
247 |
2 |
121.20 |
2013-05-05 |
| 7. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
132.07 |
1.0218 |
0.1177 |
268 |
1 |
132.07 |
2012-11-15 |
| 8. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
130.43 |
1.0630 |
0.0985 |
397 |
1 |
130.43 |
2013-02-11 |
| 9. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
128.56 |
1.0863 |
0.0601 |
210 |
1 |
128.56 |
2012-12-01 |
| 10. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
127.71 |
1.0621 |
0.0614 |
263 |
2 |
120.04 |
2013-01-27 |
| 11. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
127.13 |
0.9894 |
0.1142 |
323 |
1 |
127.13 |
2012-12-01 |
| 12. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
126.88 |
1.0417 |
0.0525 |
253 |
1 |
126.88 |
2013-01-27 |
| 13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
126.65 |
1.0714 |
0.0143 |
129 |
2 |
125.00 |
2013-02-12 |
| 14. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
126.61 |
1.0203 |
0.0777 |
261 |
1 |
126.61 |
2012-11-16 |
| 15. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
126.41 |
1.0038 |
0.1192 |
237 |
1 |
126.41 |
2013-02-11 |
| 16. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
126.36 |
1.0441 |
0.0898 |
316 |
1 |
126.36 |
2013-02-12 |
| 17. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
125.73 |
1.0666 |
0.0206 |
297 |
1 |
125.73 |
2012-12-01 |
| 18. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
124.97 |
0.9257 |
0.1597 |
317 |
1 |
124.97 |
2013-01-21 |
| 19. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
124.42 |
1.0483 |
0.0238 |
227 |
2 |
119.59 |
2012-12-24 |
| 20. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
124.40 |
1.0619 |
0.0173 |
354 |
1 |
124.40 |
2012-11-15 |
| 21. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
124.30 |
1.0125 |
0.0593 |
224 |
2 |
118.68 |
2013-01-21 |
| 22. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
123.58 |
1.0669 |
0.0342 |
213 |
1 |
123.58 |
2013-02-12 |
| 23. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
122.99 |
1.0251 |
0.0358 |
261 |
1 |
122.99 |
2012-11-15 |
| 24. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
122.10 |
0.9772 |
0.0745 |
217 |
1 |
122.10 |
2012-12-01 |
| 25. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
121.46 |
0.9863 |
0.0674 |
339 |
1 |
121.46 |
2013-02-11 |
| 26. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
121.10 |
0.9907 |
0.0544 |
211 |
1 |
121.10 |
2012-11-15 |
| 27. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
120.79 |
1.0117 |
0.0766 |
297 |
1 |
120.79 |
2012-11-15 |
| 28. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
120.68 |
1.1215 |
-0.0550 |
200 |
1 |
120.68 |
2012-11-16 |
| 29. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
120.42 |
1.0795 |
-0.0090 |
226 |
2 |
116.16 |
2013-02-19 |
| 30. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
120.33 |
1.0885 |
-0.0139 |
341 |
1 |
120.33 |
2013-02-13 |
| 31. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
120.28 |
1.1068 |
-0.0273 |
393 |
1 |
120.28 |
2012-11-20 |
| 32. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
120.00 |
1.0120 |
0.0240 |
290 |
1 |
120.00 |
2012-12-28 |
| 33. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
119.98 |
1.0343 |
0.0394 |
242 |
1 |
119.98 |
2013-02-12 |
| 34. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
119.74 |
1.0141 |
0.0607 |
381 |
1 |
119.74 |
2013-02-13 |
| 35. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
119.40 |
1.0257 |
0.0121 |
401 |
2 |
118.86 |
2012-12-23 |
| 36. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
118.93 |
1.0905 |
-0.0315 |
210 |
1 |
118.93 |
2012-11-16 |
| 37. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
118.89 |
0.9852 |
0.0422 |
264 |
1 |
118.89 |
2012-11-15 |
| 38. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
118.59 |
1.0389 |
-0.0121 |
340 |
1 |
118.59 |
2013-02-11 |
| 39. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
118.42 |
1.0719 |
-0.0212 |
360 |
1 |
118.42 |
2012-11-16 |
| 40. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
117.90 |
1.0521 |
-0.0390 |
171 |
1 |
117.90 |
2013-02-12 |
| 41. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
117.83 |
1.0296 |
-0.0053 |
437 |
1 |
117.83 |
2013-02-15 |
| 42. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
117.65 |
0.9429 |
0.0748 |
287 |
1 |
117.65 |
2012-11-15 |
| 43. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
117.24 |
0.9340 |
0.0778 |
296 |
1 |
117.24 |
2013-06-23 |
| 44. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
117.14 |
0.9532 |
0.0571 |
258 |
1 |
117.14 |
2012-11-15 |
| 45. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
116.94 |
0.9805 |
0.0342 |
292 |
1 |
116.94 |
2012-12-01 |
| 46. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
116.75 |
1.0454 |
-0.0402 |
255 |
1 |
116.75 |
2013-05-05 |
| 47. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
116.66 |
1.0684 |
-0.0309 |
253 |
1 |
116.66 |
2013-02-12 |
| 48. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
116.59 |
1.0574 |
-0.0225 |
205 |
1 |
116.59 |
2013-02-12 |
| 49. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
116.53 |
0.9897 |
0.0143 |
274 |
1 |
116.53 |
2013-02-13 |
| 50. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
116.20 |
1.0944 |
-0.0464 |
308 |
1 |
116.20 |
2013-01-17 |
| 51. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
115.99 |
1.0320 |
0.0069 |
293 |
1 |
115.99 |
2013-01-27 |
| 52. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
115.44 |
1.0060 |
-0.0139 |
171 |
1 |
115.44 |
2013-02-19 |
| 53. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
114.66 |
0.9893 |
0.0007 |
323 |
2 |
114.17 |
2013-01-16 |
| 54. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
114.65 |
0.9754 |
0.0206 |
362 |
1 |
114.65 |
2013-02-13 |
| 55. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
114.39 |
0.9997 |
-0.0082 |
382 |
1 |
114.39 |
2012-12-23 |
| 56. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
114.01 |
0.9619 |
0.0280 |
393 |
1 |
114.01 |
2012-12-28 |
| 57. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
113.68 |
1.0972 |
-0.0863 |
251 |
1 |
113.68 |
2013-02-20 |
| 58. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
113.49 |
0.9278 |
0.0546 |
295 |
2 |
105.19 |
2012-12-01 |
| 59. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
113.25 |
0.9411 |
0.0374 |
318 |
1 |
113.25 |
2013-01-27 |
| 60. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
113.14 |
0.8533 |
0.1243 |
232 |
1 |
113.14 |
2013-06-23 |
| 61. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
113.09 |
1.0515 |
-0.0833 |
166 |
1 |
113.09 |
2013-01-27 |
| 62. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
113.02 |
1.0058 |
-0.0068 |
411 |
1 |
113.02 |
2012-11-16 |
| 63. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
112.99 |
0.9612 |
0.0143 |
256 |
1 |
112.99 |
2013-02-11 |
| 64. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
112.62 |
0.9786 |
-0.0116 |
193 |
1 |
112.62 |
2013-01-27 |
| 65. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
112.41 |
1.0829 |
-0.1112 |
288 |
1 |
112.41 |
2012-11-16 |
| 66. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
112.32 |
0.9904 |
0.0195 |
203 |
2 |
108.18 |
2012-11-15 |
| 67. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
112.28 |
1.0201 |
-0.0469 |
375 |
1 |
112.28 |
2013-02-12 |
| 68. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
112.14 |
0.9937 |
-0.0007 |
429 |
1 |
112.14 |
2012-11-20 |
| 69. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
111.91 |
0.9693 |
0.0181 |
360 |
1 |
111.91 |
2013-02-13 |
| 70. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
111.83 |
0.9697 |
-0.0045 |
249 |
1 |
111.83 |
2012-11-15 |
| 71. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
111.65 |
1.0444 |
-0.0873 |
197 |
1 |
111.65 |
2013-02-11 |
| 72. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
111.49 |
1.0368 |
-0.0739 |
276 |
2 |
109.71 |
2013-02-12 |
| 73. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
111.36 |
1.0516 |
-0.0911 |
281 |
1 |
111.36 |
2012-11-16 |
| 74. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
111.29 |
0.8958 |
0.0697 |
322 |
2 |
104.66 |
2013-05-05 |
| 75. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
110.76 |
1.0485 |
-0.0583 |
153 |
1 |
110.76 |
2012-12-01 |
| 76. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
110.67 |
0.9925 |
-0.0005 |
247 |
1 |
110.67 |
2013-02-11 |
| 77. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
110.10 |
0.9128 |
0.0789 |
369 |
1 |
110.10 |
2013-02-13 |
| 78. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
110.09 |
1.0197 |
-0.0725 |
226 |
1 |
110.09 |
2012-12-01 |
| 79. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
109.72 |
1.0358 |
-0.0471 |
349 |
1 |
109.72 |
2013-01-17 |
| 80. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
109.61 |
0.9871 |
-0.0185 |
227 |
1 |
109.61 |
2013-02-13 |
| 81. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
108.81 |
1.0412 |
-0.1028 |
225 |
1 |
108.81 |
2013-05-05 |
| 82. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
108.67 |
0.9646 |
-0.0279 |
264 |
1 |
108.67 |
2013-01-17 |
| 83. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
108.65 |
0.9734 |
-0.0359 |
289 |
1 |
108.65 |
2012-11-15 |
| 84. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
108.39 |
0.9681 |
-0.0248 |
378 |
2 |
104.30 |
2013-01-17 |
| 85. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
108.14 |
0.9676 |
-0.0263 |
442 |
1 |
108.14 |
2012-12-07 |
| 86. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
108.01 |
0.9846 |
-0.0544 |
281 |
1 |
108.01 |
2013-01-27 |
| 87. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
107.95 |
1.0768 |
-0.1058 |
295 |
1 |
107.95 |
2012-12-28 |
| 88. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
107.33 |
0.9865 |
-0.0595 |
276 |
1 |
107.33 |
2013-02-12 |
| 89. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
107.31 |
0.9831 |
-0.0494 |
469 |
1 |
107.31 |
2013-05-05 |
| 90. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
107.06 |
1.0445 |
-0.1198 |
373 |
1 |
107.06 |
2013-02-11 |
| 91. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
107.04 |
0.9622 |
-0.0323 |
392 |
1 |
107.04 |
2012-11-15 |
| 92. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
106.98 |
0.9758 |
-0.0522 |
314 |
1 |
106.98 |
2013-01-16 |
| 93. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
106.62 |
1.0042 |
-0.0428 |
352 |
1 |
106.62 |
2012-11-15 |
| 94. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
106.57 |
1.0459 |
-0.0958 |
200 |
1 |
106.57 |
2013-01-27 |
| 95. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
106.50 |
0.9649 |
-0.0471 |
193 |
1 |
106.50 |
2013-02-15 |
| 96. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
106.41 |
0.9811 |
-0.0606 |
272 |
1 |
106.41 |
2012-11-20 |
| 97. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
106.20 |
1.0263 |
-0.1115 |
267 |
1 |
106.20 |
2013-01-16 |
| 98. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
105.34 |
0.9597 |
-0.0473 |
347 |
1 |
105.34 |
2013-02-19 |
| 99. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
105.20 |
0.9045 |
0.0034 |
235 |
1 |
105.20 |
2012-11-16 |
| 100. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
104.65 |
1.0328 |
-0.0916 |
356 |
1 |
104.65 |
2013-02-12 |
| 101. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
104.07 |
1.0763 |
-0.1371 |
367 |
1 |
104.07 |
2012-12-28 |
| 102. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
104.06 |
1.0031 |
-0.0725 |
304 |
1 |
104.06 |
2012-12-01 |
| 103. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
104.06 |
0.9567 |
-0.0593 |
273 |
2 |
102.13 |
2012-11-17 |
| 104. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
102.91 |
0.9583 |
-0.0275 |
341 |
1 |
102.91 |
2015-01-01 |
| 105. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
102.80 |
0.8595 |
0.0290 |
242 |
1 |
102.80 |
2012-12-28 |
| 106. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
102.17 |
0.9710 |
-0.0966 |
173 |
1 |
102.17 |
2013-02-12 |
| 107. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
101.63 |
1.0203 |
-0.1108 |
400 |
1 |
101.63 |
2012-11-15 |
| 108. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
101.45 |
1.0177 |
-0.1049 |
392 |
1 |
101.45 |
2013-02-12 |
| 109. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
101.23 |
0.9005 |
-0.0294 |
212 |
1 |
101.23 |
2012-12-28 |
| 110. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
100.79 |
1.0725 |
-0.1782 |
233 |
1 |
100.79 |
2012-11-15 |
| 111. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
99.81 |
0.9936 |
-0.1337 |
311 |
1 |
99.81 |
2012-12-01 |
| 112. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
98.18 |
0.9912 |
-0.1185 |
237 |
1 |
98.18 |
2012-12-23 |
| 113. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
97.54 |
0.9286 |
-0.0895 |
194 |
1 |
97.54 |
2012-11-16 |
| 114. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
95.12 |
0.9371 |
-0.0790 |
318 |
1 |
95.12 |
2012-11-16 |
| 115. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
94.95 |
0.9365 |
-0.1174 |
248 |
1 |
94.95 |
2012-11-15 |
| 116. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
92.10 |
0.9309 |
-0.1402 |
284 |
1 |
92.10 |
2013-02-11 |
| 117. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
87.48 |
0.9279 |
-0.1689 |
317 |
1 |
87.48 |
2013-01-17 |