Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
166.43 |
1.0665 |
0.1892 |
196 |
1 |
166.43 |
2012-09-05 |
2. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
158.36 |
1.0511 |
0.1507 |
252 |
1 |
158.36 |
2010-08-11 |
3. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
157.69 |
1.1198 |
0.0741 |
247 |
1 |
157.69 |
2010-08-11 |
4. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
156.19 |
1.0060 |
0.1842 |
244 |
1 |
156.19 |
2010-08-09 |
5. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
153.45 |
1.0521 |
0.1049 |
197 |
1 |
153.45 |
2010-08-11 |
6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
153.41 |
1.0588 |
0.1036 |
281 |
1 |
153.41 |
2010-08-11 |
7. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
152.03 |
1.0272 |
0.1225 |
226 |
1 |
152.03 |
2010-08-09 |
8. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
148.76 |
1.0427 |
0.0851 |
269 |
1 |
148.76 |
2010-08-12 |
9. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
145.78 |
1.0800 |
0.0213 |
213 |
1 |
145.78 |
2010-08-11 |
10. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
145.64 |
0.9561 |
0.1544 |
364 |
1 |
145.64 |
2012-09-05 |
11. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
145.04 |
1.0267 |
0.0750 |
261 |
1 |
145.04 |
2010-08-11 |
12. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
144.20 |
0.9926 |
0.1108 |
413 |
1 |
144.20 |
2010-08-11 |
13. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
142.84 |
1.0576 |
0.0214 |
231 |
1 |
142.84 |
2010-08-11 |
14. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
142.37 |
1.0130 |
0.0653 |
288 |
1 |
142.37 |
2010-08-11 |
15. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
142.05 |
1.0561 |
0.0178 |
227 |
1 |
142.05 |
2010-08-09 |
16. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
141.22 |
1.0392 |
0.0353 |
258 |
1 |
141.22 |
2010-08-09 |
17. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
140.98 |
0.9797 |
0.0921 |
269 |
1 |
140.98 |
2010-08-11 |
18. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
139.56 |
0.8955 |
0.1713 |
436 |
1 |
139.56 |
2012-09-05 |
19. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
139.30 |
1.0669 |
-0.0089 |
379 |
1 |
139.30 |
2010-08-11 |
20. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
139.10 |
1.0585 |
-0.0024 |
226 |
1 |
139.10 |
2010-08-09 |
21. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
139.00 |
1.0901 |
-0.0355 |
288 |
1 |
139.00 |
2010-08-11 |
22. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
138.07 |
1.0264 |
0.0149 |
191 |
1 |
138.07 |
2010-08-09 |
23. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
137.49 |
0.9392 |
0.1080 |
360 |
1 |
137.49 |
2010-08-11 |
24. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
137.12 |
0.9643 |
0.0825 |
282 |
1 |
137.12 |
2010-08-09 |
25. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
136.88 |
1.0124 |
0.0293 |
275 |
1 |
136.88 |
2010-08-09 |
26. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
136.71 |
1.0379 |
-0.0060 |
172 |
1 |
136.71 |
2012-09-05 |
27. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
135.86 |
0.9500 |
0.0803 |
287 |
2 |
125.50 |
2010-08-09 |
28. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
135.85 |
0.9932 |
0.0430 |
281 |
1 |
135.85 |
2010-08-09 |
29. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
135.20 |
1.0125 |
0.0096 |
232 |
1 |
135.20 |
2010-08-09 |
30. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
134.94 |
0.9966 |
0.0322 |
377 |
1 |
134.94 |
2010-08-09 |
31. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
134.39 |
0.9829 |
0.0338 |
229 |
1 |
134.39 |
2012-09-05 |
32. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
134.18 |
1.0197 |
-0.0057 |
204 |
1 |
134.18 |
2010-08-09 |
33. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
133.94 |
0.9068 |
0.1053 |
212 |
2 |
127.88 |
2010-08-09 |
34. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
133.50 |
1.0736 |
-0.0589 |
256 |
1 |
133.50 |
2010-08-09 |
35. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
132.32 |
0.9338 |
0.0778 |
326 |
1 |
132.32 |
2010-08-09 |
36. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
131.76 |
1.0101 |
-0.0109 |
336 |
2 |
131.57 |
2010-08-12 |
37. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
131.54 |
0.9324 |
0.0759 |
440 |
1 |
131.54 |
2010-08-09 |
38. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
131.43 |
0.9996 |
0.0028 |
483 |
1 |
131.43 |
2010-08-11 |
39. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
131.22 |
1.0482 |
-0.0419 |
407 |
1 |
131.22 |
2010-08-09 |
40. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
130.70 |
0.9536 |
0.0442 |
311 |
1 |
130.70 |
2010-08-11 |
41. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
129.76 |
0.9709 |
0.0100 |
264 |
1 |
129.76 |
2010-08-09 |
42. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
129.73 |
1.0509 |
-0.0548 |
430 |
2 |
125.70 |
2010-08-12 |
43. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
128.98 |
1.0028 |
-0.0277 |
259 |
1 |
128.98 |
2010-08-11 |
44. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
128.95 |
0.9523 |
0.0353 |
576 |
1 |
128.95 |
2010-08-09 |
45. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
128.09 |
0.9284 |
0.0448 |
346 |
1 |
128.09 |
2010-08-09 |
46. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
127.46 |
0.9145 |
0.0537 |
404 |
1 |
127.46 |
2010-08-11 |
47. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
127.25 |
1.0493 |
-0.0793 |
264 |
1 |
127.25 |
2010-08-09 |
48. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
126.75 |
1.0543 |
-0.0927 |
360 |
1 |
126.75 |
2010-08-09 |
49. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
125.58 |
0.9377 |
0.0203 |
198 |
1 |
125.58 |
2010-08-11 |
50. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
125.25 |
1.0753 |
-0.1206 |
206 |
1 |
125.25 |
2010-08-11 |
51. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
124.18 |
0.9869 |
-0.0508 |
193 |
1 |
124.18 |
2010-08-09 |
52. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
123.68 |
0.9762 |
-0.0403 |
249 |
2 |
116.85 |
2010-08-11 |
53. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
121.95 |
1.0372 |
-0.1149 |
249 |
1 |
121.95 |
2010-08-09 |
54. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
121.84 |
0.9745 |
-0.0505 |
388 |
1 |
121.84 |
2010-08-11 |
55. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
121.78 |
0.9352 |
-0.0149 |
194 |
2 |
108.88 |
2010-08-09 |
56. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
120.20 |
0.9673 |
-0.0557 |
292 |
1 |
120.20 |
2010-08-11 |
57. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
120.03 |
0.8986 |
0.0101 |
216 |
1 |
120.03 |
2010-08-09 |
58. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
119.99 |
0.9357 |
-0.0301 |
204 |
1 |
119.99 |
2010-08-11 |
59. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
119.78 |
1.0845 |
-0.1794 |
212 |
1 |
119.78 |
2010-08-09 |
60. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
119.57 |
1.0759 |
-0.1657 |
273 |
1 |
119.57 |
2012-09-05 |
61. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
119.46 |
1.0067 |
-0.0893 |
422 |
1 |
119.46 |
2010-08-11 |
62. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
118.87 |
0.9346 |
-0.0383 |
211 |
1 |
118.87 |
2010-08-12 |
63. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
118.17 |
0.9330 |
-0.0274 |
341 |
1 |
118.17 |
2010-08-11 |
64. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
116.92 |
0.9339 |
-0.0437 |
317 |
1 |
116.92 |
2010-08-09 |
65. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
115.39 |
1.0476 |
-0.1843 |
110 |
1 |
115.39 |
2010-08-09 |
66. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
99.75 |
0.9494 |
-0.1830 |
397 |
1 |
99.75 |
2010-08-09 |
67. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
96.16 |
0.9299 |
-0.2120 |
168 |
1 |
96.16 |
2012-09-05 |
68. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
95.07 |
0.8172 |
-0.1036 |
204 |
1 |
95.07 |
2010-08-11 |
69. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
41.59 |
1.0639 |
-0.7522 |
303 |
1 |
41.59 |
2010-08-09 |