| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
102.32 |
1.0993 |
0.2380 |
265 |
1 |
102.32 |
2009-04-08 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
97.12 |
1.0797 |
0.1885 |
210 |
1 |
97.12 |
2009-04-08 |
| 3. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
95.28 |
0.9612 |
0.2845 |
256 |
2 |
91.33 |
2009-04-27 |
| 4. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
92.65 |
1.0795 |
0.1594 |
226 |
1 |
92.65 |
2010-05-06 |
| 5. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
92.55 |
1.0029 |
0.2063 |
209 |
1 |
92.55 |
2009-04-08 |
| 6. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
92.49 |
1.0462 |
0.1618 |
184 |
4 |
82.31 |
2011-03-01 |
| 7. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
91.88 |
1.1016 |
0.0992 |
233 |
1 |
91.88 |
2009-04-08 |
| 8. |
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wa... |
91.64 |
1.1519 |
0.0462 |
171 |
1 |
91.64 |
2019-02-04 |
| 9. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
91.60 |
0.9540 |
0.2437 |
285 |
1 |
91.60 |
2009-04-13 |
| 10. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
89.86 |
1.0203 |
0.1545 |
261 |
2 |
85.78 |
2009-05-05 |
| 11. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
89.83 |
1.0799 |
0.0935 |
243 |
1 |
89.83 |
2009-04-08 |
| 12. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
89.03 |
1.0062 |
0.1573 |
288 |
1 |
89.03 |
2009-11-16 |
| 13. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
87.51 |
1.0412 |
0.0999 |
225 |
1 |
87.51 |
2010-05-06 |
| 14. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
87.30 |
1.0060 |
0.1351 |
171 |
1 |
87.30 |
2009-04-09 |
| 15. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
87.18 |
1.0498 |
0.0878 |
180 |
2 |
77.67 |
2010-07-09 |
| 16. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
86.07 |
1.0289 |
0.0963 |
276 |
2 |
80.99 |
2009-04-08 |
| 17. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
85.44 |
1.0684 |
0.0724 |
253 |
1 |
85.44 |
2013-03-19 |
| 18. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
85.22 |
1.0696 |
0.0425 |
226 |
1 |
85.22 |
2010-05-06 |
| 19. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
85.18 |
1.0025 |
0.1096 |
336 |
1 |
85.18 |
2009-04-13 |
| 20. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
84.80 |
1.0334 |
0.0721 |
131 |
2 |
83.88 |
2009-04-27 |
| 21. |
I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedur... |
84.68 |
1.0793 |
0.0286 |
267 |
1 |
84.68 |
2022-03-18 |
| 22. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
84.67 |
0.9279 |
0.1791 |
317 |
2 |
81.94 |
2010-05-06 |
| 23. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
84.52 |
0.9820 |
0.1237 |
274 |
1 |
84.52 |
2009-11-16 |
| 24. |
Achilles will never overtake the tortoise. He must first rea... |
84.32 |
1.0924 |
0.0198 |
289 |
1 |
84.32 |
2024-02-08 |
| 25. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
84.28 |
0.9941 |
0.1063 |
217 |
1 |
84.28 |
2009-04-08 |
| 26. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
83.92 |
1.0033 |
0.0916 |
189 |
2 |
78.09 |
2010-05-06 |
| 27. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
83.88 |
0.9795 |
0.1160 |
308 |
1 |
83.88 |
2009-04-08 |
| 28. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
83.21 |
0.9513 |
0.1364 |
354 |
1 |
83.21 |
2009-04-27 |
| 29. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
82.65 |
0.9986 |
0.0805 |
283 |
1 |
82.65 |
2009-04-20 |
| 30. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
82.38 |
0.9936 |
0.1025 |
227 |
1 |
82.38 |
2014-01-08 |
| 31. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
81.94 |
1.0613 |
0.0095 |
456 |
1 |
81.94 |
2009-04-01 |
| 32. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
81.88 |
0.9045 |
0.1655 |
235 |
2 |
81.10 |
2009-05-02 |
| 33. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
81.37 |
0.9780 |
0.0847 |
337 |
1 |
81.37 |
2010-05-06 |
| 34. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
81.20 |
0.9851 |
0.0757 |
317 |
1 |
81.20 |
2009-04-08 |
| 35. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
80.80 |
0.9863 |
0.0690 |
339 |
1 |
80.80 |
2009-11-16 |
| 36. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
80.76 |
0.9786 |
0.0764 |
235 |
1 |
80.76 |
2009-04-09 |
| 37. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
80.70 |
0.9601 |
0.0950 |
308 |
2 |
75.17 |
2009-04-09 |
| 38. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
80.63 |
1.0252 |
0.0266 |
176 |
1 |
80.63 |
2009-04-08 |
| 39. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
80.56 |
1.0529 |
-0.0010 |
351 |
2 |
79.36 |
2009-05-02 |
| 40. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
80.12 |
1.0391 |
0.0082 |
358 |
1 |
80.12 |
2009-04-09 |
| 41. |
High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were lit... |
80.11 |
0.9500 |
0.1002 |
337 |
1 |
80.11 |
2019-02-04 |
| 42. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
79.92 |
0.9894 |
0.0548 |
323 |
1 |
79.92 |
2009-05-02 |
| 43. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
79.79 |
1.0168 |
0.0238 |
271 |
1 |
79.79 |
2009-04-20 |
| 44. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
79.65 |
0.9907 |
0.0489 |
211 |
1 |
79.65 |
2009-04-01 |
| 45. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
79.63 |
1.0214 |
0.0180 |
269 |
2 |
75.24 |
2014-01-08 |
| 46. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
79.62 |
0.9202 |
0.1201 |
254 |
1 |
79.62 |
2009-04-13 |
| 47. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
79.61 |
1.0666 |
-0.0278 |
297 |
1 |
79.61 |
2008-09-21 |
| 48. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
79.39 |
1.0177 |
0.0451 |
392 |
1 |
79.39 |
2010-05-06 |
| 49. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
79.38 |
0.9756 |
0.0605 |
229 |
1 |
79.38 |
2009-04-08 |
| 50. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
78.60 |
0.9785 |
0.0490 |
335 |
1 |
78.60 |
2009-04-01 |
| 51. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
78.55 |
1.0296 |
-0.0037 |
437 |
1 |
78.55 |
2008-09-21 |
| 52. |
There's no truth in the courtroom. There's just your version... |
78.54 |
1.0237 |
0.0015 |
210 |
1 |
78.54 |
2020-01-17 |
| 53. |
You may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered... |
78.47 |
1.0814 |
1.0315 |
163 |
1 |
78.47 |
2024-02-08 |
| 54. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
78.39 |
1.0201 |
0.0039 |
375 |
1 |
78.39 |
2009-04-13 |
| 55. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
78.22 |
1.0528 |
-0.0333 |
201 |
1 |
78.22 |
2008-09-21 |
| 56. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
78.13 |
0.9734 |
0.0469 |
289 |
1 |
78.13 |
2009-04-08 |
| 57. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
77.90 |
1.0788 |
-0.0627 |
171 |
1 |
77.90 |
2009-05-02 |
| 58. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
77.72 |
1.0095 |
0.0051 |
316 |
1 |
77.72 |
2009-04-16 |
| 59. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
77.67 |
0.9916 |
0.0567 |
282 |
1 |
77.67 |
2013-03-19 |
| 60. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
77.66 |
1.0714 |
-0.0592 |
129 |
1 |
77.66 |
2009-04-13 |
| 61. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
77.49 |
1.0419 |
-0.0312 |
261 |
1 |
77.49 |
2009-04-01 |
| 62. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
77.47 |
0.9653 |
0.0480 |
394 |
3 |
70.99 |
2010-05-06 |
| 63. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
77.29 |
0.9776 |
0.0321 |
308 |
2 |
76.82 |
2009-04-08 |
| 64. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
77.24 |
0.9464 |
0.0634 |
323 |
3 |
72.16 |
2009-04-08 |
| 65. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
77.04 |
0.9691 |
0.0371 |
223 |
2 |
72.49 |
2010-05-06 |
| 66. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
76.91 |
0.9676 |
0.0383 |
442 |
1 |
76.91 |
2009-04-27 |
| 67. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
76.87 |
1.0169 |
0.0158 |
346 |
1 |
76.87 |
2013-03-19 |
| 68. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
76.85 |
1.0337 |
-0.0316 |
214 |
1 |
76.85 |
2010-05-06 |
| 69. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
76.66 |
1.0150 |
0.0236 |
325 |
1 |
76.66 |
2010-05-06 |
| 70. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
76.56 |
1.0117 |
0.0244 |
297 |
1 |
76.56 |
2024-02-08 |
| 71. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
76.55 |
1.0516 |
-0.0526 |
281 |
1 |
76.55 |
2009-05-27 |
| 72. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
76.52 |
0.9275 |
0.0713 |
211 |
1 |
76.52 |
2009-04-08 |
| 73. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
76.51 |
0.9769 |
0.0216 |
263 |
2 |
73.46 |
2009-04-08 |
| 74. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
76.25 |
1.0034 |
-0.0083 |
302 |
1 |
76.25 |
2008-09-21 |
| 75. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
76.03 |
0.9991 |
-0.0066 |
225 |
1 |
76.03 |
2009-04-08 |
| 76. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
75.95 |
0.9293 |
0.0625 |
355 |
1 |
75.95 |
2009-04-20 |
| 77. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
75.86 |
0.9532 |
0.0378 |
258 |
1 |
75.86 |
2009-04-13 |
| 78. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
75.68 |
1.0787 |
-0.0917 |
237 |
1 |
75.68 |
2008-09-21 |
| 79. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
75.41 |
0.8852 |
0.1000 |
201 |
3 |
66.63 |
2014-01-08 |
| 80. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
75.38 |
1.0314 |
-0.0202 |
452 |
1 |
75.38 |
2013-03-19 |
| 81. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
75.18 |
1.0218 |
-0.0419 |
268 |
1 |
75.18 |
2009-04-20 |
| 82. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
75.14 |
1.0429 |
-0.0629 |
259 |
1 |
75.14 |
2019-02-04 |
| 83. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
74.87 |
0.9567 |
0.0211 |
273 |
1 |
74.87 |
2009-04-08 |
| 84. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
74.49 |
1.0385 |
-0.0674 |
230 |
1 |
74.49 |
2009-04-20 |
| 85. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
74.46 |
1.0487 |
-0.0788 |
231 |
2 |
71.11 |
2009-04-08 |
| 86. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
74.45 |
1.0013 |
-0.0293 |
273 |
1 |
74.45 |
2009-04-08 |
| 87. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
74.10 |
1.1114 |
-0.1458 |
247 |
1 |
74.10 |
2009-04-08 |
| 88. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
74.09 |
1.0619 |
-0.0947 |
354 |
1 |
74.09 |
2009-04-08 |
| 89. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
73.89 |
0.9843 |
-0.0214 |
234 |
1 |
73.89 |
2009-04-08 |
| 90. |
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote him... |
73.89 |
1.0114 |
-0.0464 |
312 |
1 |
73.89 |
2022-03-18 |
| 91. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
73.84 |
0.9514 |
0.0123 |
237 |
1 |
73.84 |
2009-04-08 |
| 92. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
73.45 |
1.0197 |
-0.0617 |
226 |
1 |
73.45 |
2009-04-08 |
| 93. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
73.38 |
0.9852 |
-0.0276 |
264 |
1 |
73.38 |
2009-04-08 |
| 94. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
73.22 |
0.9946 |
-0.0393 |
246 |
2 |
71.27 |
2009-05-02 |
| 95. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
72.99 |
1.0595 |
-0.1075 |
379 |
1 |
72.99 |
2009-05-02 |
| 96. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
72.49 |
1.0201 |
-0.0741 |
303 |
1 |
72.49 |
2009-04-09 |
| 97. |
On other wavelengths there would probably be a lot still to ... |
72.48 |
0.9700 |
-0.0199 |
447 |
1 |
72.48 |
2020-01-17 |
| 98. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
72.34 |
0.8770 |
0.0679 |
300 |
1 |
72.34 |
2009-04-09 |
| 99. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
72.18 |
0.9005 |
0.0420 |
212 |
1 |
72.18 |
2009-04-08 |
| 100. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
71.81 |
1.1215 |
-0.1623 |
200 |
1 |
71.81 |
2014-01-08 |
| 101. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
71.55 |
0.9330 |
0.0013 |
360 |
2 |
68.69 |
2013-03-19 |
| 102. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
71.45 |
0.9398 |
-0.0059 |
419 |
2 |
65.65 |
2010-05-06 |
| 103. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
71.44 |
0.9646 |
-0.0318 |
264 |
1 |
71.44 |
2009-04-09 |
| 104. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
71.37 |
0.9372 |
-0.0042 |
320 |
1 |
71.37 |
2008-09-21 |
| 105. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
70.72 |
1.0331 |
-0.1107 |
234 |
1 |
70.72 |
2010-07-09 |
| 106. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
70.30 |
0.9342 |
-0.0159 |
434 |
1 |
70.30 |
2008-09-21 |
| 107. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
70.14 |
0.9925 |
-0.0456 |
247 |
1 |
70.14 |
2013-03-19 |
| 108. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
70.05 |
0.9619 |
-0.0465 |
393 |
1 |
70.05 |
2009-04-01 |
| 109. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
69.70 |
0.9286 |
-0.0190 |
194 |
1 |
69.70 |
2009-05-05 |
| 110. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
69.25 |
0.9084 |
-0.0040 |
300 |
1 |
69.25 |
2009-04-08 |
| 111. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
69.14 |
1.0679 |
-0.1436 |
177 |
1 |
69.14 |
2024-02-08 |
| 112. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
68.99 |
0.9997 |
-0.0988 |
382 |
1 |
68.99 |
2009-04-08 |
| 113. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
67.52 |
0.8933 |
-0.0111 |
363 |
1 |
67.52 |
2009-04-08 |
| 114. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
67.42 |
0.9811 |
-0.1028 |
272 |
1 |
67.42 |
2009-04-07 |
| 115. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
67.27 |
0.9411 |
-0.0625 |
318 |
1 |
67.27 |
2009-04-08 |
| 116. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
66.79 |
0.9833 |
-0.1105 |
355 |
1 |
66.79 |
2009-04-08 |
| 117. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
66.71 |
0.8890 |
-0.0195 |
199 |
1 |
66.71 |
2014-01-08 |
| 118. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
66.69 |
0.9278 |
-0.0566 |
295 |
1 |
66.69 |
2009-05-02 |
| 119. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
66.47 |
0.9212 |
-0.0534 |
323 |
1 |
66.47 |
2008-09-21 |
| 120. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
66.17 |
0.8878 |
-0.0238 |
346 |
1 |
66.17 |
2009-04-09 |
| 121. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
65.66 |
0.9125 |
-0.0552 |
308 |
1 |
65.66 |
2008-09-21 |
| 122. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
65.66 |
0.9074 |
-0.0488 |
396 |
1 |
65.66 |
2009-05-02 |
| 123. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
65.47 |
0.8595 |
-0.0050 |
242 |
2 |
63.52 |
2009-05-02 |
| 124. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
65.09 |
0.9687 |
-0.1184 |
371 |
1 |
65.09 |
2008-09-21 |
| 125. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
64.88 |
0.8722 |
-0.0250 |
285 |
1 |
64.88 |
2009-04-08 |
| 126. |
Dear Theodosia, what to say to you? You have my eyes, you ha... |
64.85 |
0.9771 |
-0.1285 |
218 |
1 |
64.85 |
2019-02-04 |
| 127. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
64.38 |
0.8958 |
-0.0548 |
322 |
1 |
64.38 |
2009-04-01 |
| 128. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
64.15 |
0.9866 |
-0.1499 |
218 |
1 |
64.15 |
2009-04-08 |
| 129. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
63.27 |
1.0261 |
-0.2024 |
273 |
1 |
63.27 |
2014-01-08 |
| 130. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
62.69 |
0.9723 |
-0.1546 |
364 |
1 |
62.69 |
2009-04-08 |
| 131. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
62.43 |
1.0124 |
-0.1991 |
204 |
1 |
62.43 |
2008-09-21 |
| 132. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
61.64 |
0.9064 |
-0.1011 |
399 |
1 |
61.64 |
2009-03-26 |
| 133. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
60.69 |
0.9699 |
-0.1787 |
269 |
1 |
60.69 |
2009-03-26 |
| 134. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
58.98 |
0.9681 |
-0.1983 |
378 |
1 |
58.98 |
2009-03-31 |