| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
168.09 |
1.0498 |
0.1875 |
180 |
1 |
168.09 |
2009-02-12 |
| 2. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
166.47 |
0.9368 |
0.3084 |
174 |
3 |
140.62 |
2008-08-20 |
| 3. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
164.76 |
0.9820 |
0.2381 |
267 |
5 |
138.11 |
2009-02-12 |
| 4. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
164.55 |
1.0261 |
0.1877 |
273 |
2 |
139.91 |
2008-08-12 |
| 5. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
164.11 |
1.0486 |
0.1646 |
289 |
2 |
148.61 |
2008-09-01 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
160.25 |
1.1018 |
0.0754 |
220 |
4 |
148.24 |
2008-08-25 |
| 7. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
159.92 |
1.0529 |
0.1281 |
351 |
4 |
139.54 |
2008-08-22 |
| 8. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
158.14 |
1.0555 |
0.1137 |
363 |
2 |
143.13 |
2008-08-13 |
| 9. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
158.08 |
0.9468 |
0.2201 |
276 |
3 |
131.39 |
2008-08-18 |
| 10. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
158.03 |
0.8919 |
0.2734 |
205 |
1 |
158.03 |
2008-08-09 |
| 11. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
157.38 |
1.0668 |
0.0979 |
350 |
3 |
144.02 |
2008-08-20 |
| 12. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
157.23 |
1.0462 |
0.1088 |
184 |
3 |
139.48 |
2008-08-19 |
| 13. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
154.77 |
1.0197 |
0.1201 |
226 |
1 |
154.77 |
2008-08-19 |
| 14. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
154.34 |
1.0251 |
0.1122 |
261 |
2 |
133.39 |
2008-08-13 |
| 15. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
154.17 |
1.0168 |
0.1228 |
271 |
2 |
153.61 |
2008-08-09 |
| 16. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
150.57 |
1.0711 |
0.0351 |
213 |
1 |
150.57 |
2008-08-18 |
| 17. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
150.46 |
0.9649 |
0.1445 |
193 |
3 |
124.75 |
2008-08-20 |
| 18. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
149.93 |
0.9578 |
0.1482 |
281 |
2 |
131.68 |
2008-08-20 |
| 19. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
149.84 |
1.0068 |
0.1024 |
358 |
1 |
149.84 |
2008-10-25 |
| 20. |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Be... |
148.56 |
0.8786 |
0.2348 |
214 |
2 |
135.01 |
2008-08-22 |
| 21. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
148.49 |
0.9687 |
0.1318 |
371 |
3 |
138.34 |
2009-02-12 |
| 22. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
148.28 |
0.9997 |
0.0981 |
382 |
2 |
137.93 |
2008-08-22 |
| 23. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
147.82 |
1.0567 |
0.0347 |
303 |
3 |
130.24 |
2008-08-25 |
| 24. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
147.77 |
1.0013 |
0.0882 |
273 |
1 |
147.77 |
2008-08-25 |
| 25. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
147.76 |
1.0454 |
0.0412 |
255 |
2 |
136.15 |
2008-08-18 |
| 26. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
147.40 |
0.9941 |
0.0912 |
217 |
2 |
139.16 |
2008-08-12 |
| 27. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
146.67 |
1.0368 |
0.0463 |
276 |
2 |
145.76 |
2008-08-25 |
| 28. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
145.94 |
0.9865 |
0.0914 |
276 |
1 |
145.94 |
2008-08-13 |
| 29. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
145.11 |
0.9942 |
0.0852 |
483 |
5 |
130.04 |
2008-08-25 |
| 30. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
144.65 |
0.9768 |
0.0929 |
387 |
3 |
129.01 |
2008-08-13 |
| 31. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
143.14 |
1.0577 |
-0.0053 |
247 |
1 |
143.14 |
2009-02-12 |
| 32. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
143.04 |
0.9833 |
0.0734 |
355 |
2 |
139.52 |
2008-08-13 |
| 33. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
142.94 |
1.0613 |
-0.0019 |
456 |
1 |
142.94 |
2008-08-19 |
| 34. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
142.71 |
0.8996 |
0.1475 |
192 |
2 |
131.34 |
2008-10-25 |
| 35. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
142.53 |
0.9811 |
0.0729 |
272 |
1 |
142.53 |
2009-02-12 |
| 36. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
141.60 |
0.9593 |
0.0898 |
398 |
2 |
127.90 |
2008-10-25 |
| 37. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
141.02 |
0.9844 |
0.0604 |
293 |
2 |
132.73 |
2008-08-13 |
| 38. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
140.91 |
0.9936 |
0.0453 |
311 |
2 |
127.85 |
2009-02-12 |
| 39. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
140.77 |
1.0389 |
0.0017 |
340 |
1 |
140.77 |
2008-08-20 |
| 40. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
140.32 |
0.9907 |
0.0425 |
211 |
1 |
140.32 |
2008-08-18 |
| 41. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
140.13 |
1.0787 |
-0.0466 |
237 |
2 |
130.43 |
2008-08-18 |
| 42. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
140.12 |
0.9776 |
0.0559 |
308 |
3 |
129.66 |
2008-08-19 |
| 43. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
140.03 |
0.9884 |
0.0434 |
233 |
4 |
131.90 |
2008-08-18 |
| 44. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
140.02 |
0.9893 |
0.0434 |
323 |
2 |
136.24 |
2008-08-19 |
| 45. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
140.02 |
0.9841 |
0.0523 |
334 |
4 |
120.15 |
2008-08-25 |
| 46. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
139.81 |
0.9843 |
0.0417 |
234 |
3 |
125.95 |
2008-08-18 |
| 47. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
139.00 |
0.9632 |
0.0681 |
392 |
1 |
139.00 |
2008-10-25 |
| 48. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
138.78 |
1.0034 |
0.0184 |
302 |
2 |
135.62 |
2008-08-13 |
| 49. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
138.23 |
0.9785 |
0.0439 |
335 |
1 |
138.23 |
2008-08-18 |
| 50. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
138.18 |
0.9084 |
0.1122 |
300 |
4 |
123.80 |
2008-08-22 |
| 51. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
138.09 |
1.0025 |
0.0155 |
256 |
3 |
121.44 |
2008-08-18 |
| 52. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
138.01 |
0.9527 |
0.0647 |
251 |
2 |
132.09 |
2008-08-18 |
| 53. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
137.53 |
0.9513 |
0.0665 |
354 |
4 |
119.83 |
2009-02-12 |
| 54. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
137.07 |
0.9500 |
0.0627 |
362 |
1 |
137.07 |
2008-08-19 |
| 55. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
136.76 |
1.0053 |
0.0009 |
232 |
1 |
136.76 |
2008-08-12 |
| 56. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
136.61 |
0.9411 |
0.0668 |
318 |
2 |
130.05 |
2008-10-25 |
| 57. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
136.58 |
0.9342 |
0.0762 |
434 |
2 |
134.17 |
2008-08-25 |
| 58. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
136.37 |
1.0296 |
-0.0179 |
437 |
2 |
134.82 |
2008-08-20 |
| 59. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
136.32 |
1.0797 |
-0.0804 |
210 |
2 |
134.77 |
2009-02-12 |
| 60. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
136.30 |
0.9635 |
0.0467 |
389 |
2 |
126.47 |
2009-02-12 |
| 61. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
136.10 |
0.8852 |
0.1202 |
201 |
2 |
135.31 |
2008-08-13 |
| 62. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
135.99 |
1.0666 |
-0.0640 |
297 |
1 |
135.99 |
2008-08-09 |
| 63. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
135.97 |
0.9857 |
0.0156 |
293 |
2 |
134.78 |
2009-02-12 |
| 64. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
135.88 |
0.9398 |
0.0711 |
419 |
3 |
128.99 |
2008-09-01 |
| 65. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
135.62 |
1.0487 |
-0.0540 |
231 |
2 |
122.00 |
2008-08-13 |
| 66. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
134.76 |
1.0167 |
-0.0166 |
378 |
3 |
123.75 |
2008-08-25 |
| 67. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
133.22 |
1.0613 |
-0.0786 |
266 |
2 |
125.24 |
2008-08-18 |
| 68. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
133.09 |
0.9795 |
0.0013 |
308 |
3 |
123.40 |
2008-08-19 |
| 69. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
132.30 |
0.8947 |
0.0851 |
366 |
1 |
132.30 |
2008-08-11 |
| 70. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
132.13 |
0.9072 |
0.0647 |
237 |
1 |
132.13 |
2008-09-01 |
| 71. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
132.07 |
0.9684 |
0.0075 |
388 |
1 |
132.07 |
2008-08-19 |
| 72. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
131.97 |
1.0352 |
-0.0601 |
341 |
1 |
131.97 |
2008-08-19 |
| 73. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
131.66 |
1.0391 |
-0.0629 |
358 |
2 |
127.75 |
2008-08-20 |
| 74. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
131.63 |
0.9710 |
-0.0076 |
173 |
1 |
131.63 |
2008-08-19 |
| 75. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
131.62 |
1.0477 |
-0.0755 |
360 |
1 |
131.62 |
2009-02-12 |
| 76. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
131.11 |
0.9087 |
0.0680 |
393 |
2 |
130.54 |
2008-08-22 |
| 77. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
130.33 |
0.8933 |
0.0733 |
363 |
1 |
130.33 |
2008-08-13 |
| 78. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
130.31 |
1.0201 |
-0.0596 |
303 |
1 |
130.31 |
2008-08-19 |
| 79. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
130.06 |
0.9681 |
-0.0016 |
378 |
1 |
130.06 |
2009-02-12 |
| 80. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
129.89 |
0.9339 |
0.0215 |
310 |
1 |
129.89 |
2008-08-12 |
| 81. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
129.10 |
0.9769 |
-0.0280 |
263 |
2 |
123.06 |
2008-08-13 |
| 82. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
129.00 |
0.9965 |
-0.0459 |
310 |
1 |
129.00 |
2008-09-01 |
| 83. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
128.71 |
0.9309 |
0.0153 |
284 |
1 |
128.71 |
2008-10-25 |
| 84. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
128.62 |
0.8722 |
0.0781 |
285 |
2 |
117.07 |
2009-02-12 |
| 85. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
128.59 |
0.9109 |
0.0389 |
401 |
1 |
128.59 |
2008-08-18 |
| 86. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
128.47 |
1.0340 |
-0.0825 |
406 |
3 |
117.42 |
2008-08-20 |
| 87. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
127.64 |
1.0331 |
-0.0952 |
234 |
3 |
118.05 |
2008-08-22 |
| 88. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
127.54 |
0.8770 |
0.0656 |
300 |
4 |
118.81 |
2008-08-13 |
| 89. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
127.49 |
0.9846 |
-0.0467 |
281 |
3 |
123.64 |
2008-08-25 |
| 90. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
126.95 |
0.9672 |
-0.0257 |
396 |
2 |
126.50 |
2008-09-01 |
| 91. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
126.40 |
0.9084 |
0.0266 |
404 |
2 |
120.67 |
2008-08-13 |
| 92. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
125.75 |
0.9168 |
0.0105 |
240 |
3 |
122.15 |
2008-08-19 |
| 93. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
125.54 |
0.9372 |
-0.0088 |
320 |
1 |
125.54 |
2008-08-12 |
| 94. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
125.50 |
0.9430 |
-0.0262 |
211 |
2 |
125.43 |
2008-09-01 |
| 95. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
125.40 |
0.9279 |
0.0020 |
317 |
1 |
125.40 |
2008-08-20 |
| 96. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
125.38 |
0.9866 |
-0.0671 |
218 |
2 |
116.64 |
2008-08-25 |
| 97. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
125.20 |
0.9622 |
-0.0339 |
392 |
1 |
125.20 |
2008-08-11 |
| 98. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
124.68 |
0.8956 |
0.0270 |
322 |
1 |
124.68 |
2009-02-12 |
| 99. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
124.66 |
0.9464 |
-0.0234 |
323 |
3 |
114.95 |
2008-08-19 |
| 100. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
123.85 |
0.9597 |
-0.0438 |
347 |
1 |
123.85 |
2008-08-20 |
| 101. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
123.62 |
0.9213 |
-0.0107 |
295 |
1 |
123.62 |
2008-08-09 |
| 102. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
123.31 |
0.9612 |
-0.0534 |
256 |
2 |
106.38 |
2008-08-12 |
| 103. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
123.28 |
0.9266 |
-0.0189 |
267 |
3 |
114.55 |
2008-08-22 |
| 104. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
122.94 |
0.9125 |
-0.0057 |
308 |
2 |
116.23 |
2008-08-20 |
| 105. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
122.12 |
1.0515 |
-0.1545 |
250 |
1 |
122.12 |
2008-08-09 |
| 106. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
121.93 |
0.8553 |
0.0371 |
174 |
1 |
121.93 |
2008-10-25 |
| 107. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
121.80 |
0.9691 |
-0.0731 |
223 |
1 |
121.80 |
2008-08-25 |
| 108. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
121.54 |
0.9202 |
-0.0263 |
254 |
4 |
113.03 |
2008-08-25 |
| 109. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
120.12 |
0.9097 |
0.0159 |
464 |
1 |
120.12 |
2008-08-12 |
| 110. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
120.03 |
1.0389 |
-0.1539 |
318 |
1 |
120.03 |
2009-02-12 |
| 111. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
119.08 |
0.9614 |
-0.0822 |
292 |
1 |
119.08 |
2008-08-20 |
| 112. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
118.44 |
1.0063 |
-0.1345 |
371 |
1 |
118.44 |
2008-08-09 |
| 113. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
117.81 |
0.9619 |
-0.0900 |
393 |
3 |
112.03 |
2008-08-13 |
| 114. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
116.95 |
1.0696 |
-0.2128 |
226 |
1 |
116.95 |
2008-08-09 |
| 115. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
115.01 |
0.9293 |
-0.0827 |
355 |
1 |
115.01 |
2008-08-22 |
| 116. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
114.81 |
1.0165 |
-0.1683 |
392 |
2 |
112.94 |
2008-08-25 |
| 117. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
113.39 |
0.9653 |
-0.1233 |
394 |
3 |
110.71 |
2008-08-12 |
| 118. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
113.18 |
0.9351 |
-0.1084 |
190 |
3 |
96.53 |
2008-10-25 |
| 119. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
112.68 |
1.0120 |
-0.1844 |
290 |
2 |
106.39 |
2008-08-20 |
| 120. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
109.24 |
0.9723 |
-0.1659 |
364 |
1 |
109.24 |
2008-08-13 |
| 121. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
108.88 |
0.9991 |
-0.1985 |
225 |
1 |
108.88 |
2008-08-09 |
| 122. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
108.84 |
0.9772 |
-0.1809 |
217 |
1 |
108.84 |
2008-10-25 |
| 123. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
107.97 |
0.9966 |
-0.2039 |
259 |
1 |
107.97 |
2008-08-13 |
| 124. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
107.33 |
0.8382 |
-0.0492 |
268 |
1 |
107.33 |
2008-08-13 |
| 125. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
106.41 |
0.8595 |
-0.0761 |
242 |
1 |
106.41 |
2008-08-18 |
| 126. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
105.01 |
0.8105 |
-0.0436 |
204 |
1 |
105.01 |
2008-10-25 |
| 127. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
103.02 |
0.9863 |
-0.2256 |
339 |
1 |
103.02 |
2008-08-12 |
| 128. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
102.90 |
0.9910 |
-0.2337 |
295 |
1 |
102.90 |
2008-08-20 |
| 129. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
98.48 |
0.9532 |
-0.2321 |
258 |
1 |
98.48 |
2008-08-12 |
| 130. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
98.36 |
0.9756 |
-0.2554 |
229 |
1 |
98.36 |
2008-08-09 |