| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
103.30 |
1.0711 |
0.1330 |
213 |
1 |
103.30 |
2013-10-05 |
| 2. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
102.76 |
1.0381 |
0.1539 |
170 |
1 |
102.76 |
2013-10-05 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
101.39 |
1.1016 |
0.0849 |
233 |
2 |
98.48 |
2013-10-05 |
| 4. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
100.84 |
1.0534 |
0.1293 |
357 |
2 |
95.27 |
2014-01-31 |
| 5. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
97.89 |
1.0941 |
0.0824 |
256 |
1 |
97.89 |
2011-12-19 |
| 6. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
97.19 |
1.1022 |
0.0699 |
259 |
1 |
97.19 |
2011-12-03 |
| 7. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
96.62 |
0.9723 |
0.1620 |
364 |
2 |
91.48 |
2013-10-07 |
| 8. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
95.94 |
1.0917 |
0.0540 |
243 |
1 |
95.94 |
2013-10-05 |
| 9. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
95.78 |
0.9936 |
0.1469 |
227 |
1 |
95.78 |
2011-12-03 |
| 10. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
94.41 |
1.0662 |
0.0761 |
407 |
2 |
92.75 |
2013-10-05 |
| 11. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
94.30 |
1.0125 |
0.0878 |
224 |
2 |
92.63 |
2013-10-05 |
| 12. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
94.21 |
1.0714 |
0.0212 |
129 |
1 |
94.21 |
2013-10-05 |
| 13. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
94.06 |
1.0487 |
0.0462 |
231 |
1 |
94.06 |
2013-10-05 |
| 14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
94.03 |
1.0252 |
0.0679 |
176 |
1 |
94.03 |
2011-12-03 |
| 15. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
93.78 |
1.0167 |
0.0870 |
378 |
2 |
91.57 |
2013-10-25 |
| 16. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
93.76 |
1.0417 |
0.0520 |
253 |
1 |
93.76 |
2013-10-05 |
| 17. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
93.70 |
1.0218 |
0.0710 |
268 |
2 |
93.45 |
2011-12-23 |
| 18. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
93.55 |
1.0719 |
0.0499 |
360 |
1 |
93.55 |
2011-12-03 |
| 19. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
93.40 |
0.9342 |
0.1617 |
434 |
2 |
90.69 |
2013-11-05 |
| 20. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
92.72 |
1.0201 |
0.0647 |
303 |
1 |
92.72 |
2013-10-07 |
| 21. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
92.54 |
1.0361 |
0.0467 |
269 |
1 |
92.54 |
2013-10-05 |
| 22. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
92.27 |
1.0668 |
0.0142 |
350 |
2 |
89.36 |
2012-11-16 |
| 23. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
92.11 |
1.0391 |
0.0438 |
358 |
1 |
92.11 |
2013-10-20 |
| 24. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
91.77 |
1.0667 |
0.0451 |
406 |
2 |
91.00 |
2013-10-05 |
| 25. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
91.53 |
1.0523 |
0.0135 |
256 |
2 |
86.42 |
2012-11-16 |
| 26. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
91.53 |
1.0270 |
0.0789 |
255 |
1 |
91.53 |
2013-10-07 |
| 27. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
91.17 |
0.9570 |
0.1105 |
287 |
1 |
91.17 |
2011-12-03 |
| 28. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
91.12 |
1.0669 |
0.0313 |
213 |
1 |
91.12 |
2011-12-02 |
| 29. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
90.95 |
0.9734 |
0.0898 |
289 |
1 |
90.95 |
2013-10-20 |
| 30. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
90.84 |
1.0944 |
0.0120 |
308 |
2 |
83.63 |
2013-10-05 |
| 31. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
89.99 |
1.0740 |
0.0160 |
264 |
1 |
89.99 |
2013-10-05 |
| 32. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
89.85 |
1.0340 |
0.0215 |
406 |
1 |
89.85 |
2013-11-05 |
| 33. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
89.72 |
1.0058 |
0.0661 |
411 |
1 |
89.72 |
2012-05-30 |
| 34. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
89.52 |
0.9997 |
0.0503 |
382 |
1 |
89.52 |
2013-10-05 |
| 35. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
89.23 |
1.0109 |
0.0648 |
400 |
1 |
89.23 |
2012-05-30 |
| 36. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
88.75 |
0.9884 |
0.0483 |
233 |
1 |
88.75 |
2012-11-16 |
| 37. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
88.56 |
0.9911 |
0.0401 |
212 |
1 |
88.56 |
2012-05-30 |
| 38. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
88.53 |
1.0412 |
-0.0071 |
225 |
1 |
88.53 |
2012-11-16 |
| 39. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
88.28 |
1.0613 |
-0.0288 |
266 |
1 |
88.28 |
2013-11-22 |
| 40. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
88.12 |
1.0545 |
0.0160 |
416 |
2 |
86.19 |
2013-10-20 |
| 41. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
87.23 |
1.0531 |
0.0042 |
272 |
1 |
87.23 |
2011-12-03 |
| 42. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
86.95 |
0.9851 |
0.0333 |
317 |
1 |
86.95 |
2011-12-03 |
| 43. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
86.91 |
1.0399 |
-0.0192 |
294 |
2 |
77.45 |
2015-01-07 |
| 44. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
86.81 |
0.9371 |
0.1161 |
318 |
1 |
86.81 |
2013-11-05 |
| 45. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
86.79 |
1.0787 |
-0.0663 |
237 |
1 |
86.79 |
2015-01-07 |
| 46. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
86.30 |
1.0117 |
0.0411 |
297 |
1 |
86.30 |
2013-10-05 |
| 47. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
86.24 |
1.0150 |
0.0415 |
325 |
1 |
86.24 |
2012-09-27 |
| 48. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
86.15 |
0.9309 |
0.0735 |
284 |
1 |
86.15 |
2012-11-16 |
| 49. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
85.60 |
1.0477 |
-0.0455 |
360 |
1 |
85.60 |
2013-10-05 |
| 50. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
85.47 |
1.0462 |
-0.0538 |
184 |
1 |
85.47 |
2011-12-02 |
| 51. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
85.23 |
0.9886 |
0.0093 |
220 |
1 |
85.23 |
2011-12-02 |
| 52. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
85.20 |
1.0426 |
-0.0481 |
323 |
1 |
85.20 |
2011-12-02 |
| 53. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
84.76 |
0.9871 |
0.0391 |
209 |
1 |
84.76 |
2013-10-05 |
| 54. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
84.69 |
1.0444 |
-0.0619 |
197 |
1 |
84.69 |
2013-02-07 |
| 55. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
84.33 |
1.0203 |
-0.0321 |
261 |
1 |
84.33 |
2015-01-07 |
| 56. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
83.91 |
1.0398 |
-0.0708 |
110 |
1 |
83.91 |
2011-12-03 |
| 57. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
83.74 |
0.9411 |
0.0376 |
318 |
1 |
83.74 |
2011-12-03 |
| 58. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
83.24 |
1.0189 |
-0.0439 |
337 |
1 |
83.24 |
2011-12-02 |
| 59. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
83.15 |
0.9852 |
-0.0141 |
264 |
1 |
83.15 |
2014-01-26 |
| 60. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
82.76 |
0.9965 |
-0.0296 |
277 |
1 |
82.76 |
2011-12-03 |
| 61. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
81.56 |
0.9278 |
0.0269 |
295 |
1 |
81.56 |
2013-10-07 |
| 62. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
81.48 |
0.9339 |
0.0156 |
310 |
2 |
77.77 |
2013-10-07 |
| 63. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
81.25 |
0.9646 |
-0.0171 |
264 |
1 |
81.25 |
2011-12-03 |
| 64. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
81.14 |
0.9881 |
-0.0002 |
424 |
2 |
81.12 |
2013-11-22 |
| 65. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
80.79 |
1.0232 |
-0.0446 |
236 |
1 |
80.79 |
2013-10-07 |
| 66. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
80.56 |
0.8956 |
0.0493 |
322 |
1 |
80.56 |
2011-12-18 |
| 67. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
80.54 |
0.9681 |
-0.0199 |
378 |
2 |
79.53 |
2013-10-20 |
| 68. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
80.45 |
0.9916 |
-0.0100 |
282 |
1 |
80.45 |
2013-10-20 |
| 69. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
80.44 |
1.0169 |
-0.0394 |
346 |
1 |
80.44 |
2012-05-30 |
| 70. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
80.14 |
1.0555 |
-0.1187 |
363 |
1 |
80.14 |
2015-01-07 |
| 71. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
80.14 |
1.0090 |
-0.0301 |
282 |
1 |
80.14 |
2012-11-16 |
| 72. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
80.13 |
0.9569 |
0.0057 |
410 |
1 |
80.13 |
2013-10-07 |
| 73. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
80.02 |
1.0506 |
-0.0881 |
277 |
1 |
80.02 |
2013-02-07 |
| 74. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
79.90 |
0.9109 |
0.0245 |
401 |
1 |
79.90 |
2012-10-11 |
| 75. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
79.60 |
1.0535 |
-0.0897 |
326 |
1 |
79.60 |
2011-12-02 |
| 76. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
79.58 |
0.9064 |
0.0317 |
399 |
2 |
79.38 |
2013-10-05 |
| 77. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
79.40 |
0.9426 |
-0.0130 |
317 |
1 |
79.40 |
2011-12-03 |
| 78. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
78.96 |
0.9164 |
0.0100 |
305 |
1 |
78.96 |
2013-10-05 |
| 79. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
78.66 |
0.9855 |
-0.0341 |
258 |
1 |
78.66 |
2011-12-02 |
| 80. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
78.45 |
1.0042 |
-0.0472 |
352 |
1 |
78.45 |
2013-10-05 |
| 81. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
78.38 |
1.0390 |
-0.1284 |
205 |
1 |
78.38 |
2015-04-30 |
| 82. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
78.17 |
0.9485 |
-0.0348 |
236 |
1 |
78.17 |
2012-05-30 |
| 83. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
78.08 |
0.9540 |
-0.0452 |
285 |
1 |
78.08 |
2011-12-03 |
| 84. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
77.65 |
1.0379 |
-0.0974 |
245 |
1 |
77.65 |
2013-05-14 |
| 85. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
77.47 |
0.9678 |
-0.0291 |
445 |
1 |
77.47 |
2013-10-05 |
| 86. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
77.46 |
1.0214 |
-0.1193 |
269 |
1 |
77.46 |
2015-01-07 |
| 87. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
77.13 |
1.1014 |
-0.1641 |
273 |
1 |
77.13 |
2011-12-18 |
| 88. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
77.12 |
0.8670 |
0.0376 |
318 |
1 |
77.12 |
2012-11-17 |
| 89. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
77.02 |
0.9676 |
-0.0608 |
442 |
1 |
77.02 |
2013-10-05 |
| 90. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
76.69 |
0.9578 |
-0.0634 |
281 |
1 |
76.69 |
2011-12-02 |
| 91. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
76.35 |
0.8826 |
0.0094 |
296 |
1 |
76.35 |
2013-10-07 |
| 92. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
76.28 |
0.9529 |
-0.0229 |
269 |
1 |
76.28 |
2013-10-05 |
| 93. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
75.96 |
1.0165 |
-0.1268 |
392 |
1 |
75.96 |
2015-01-07 |
| 94. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
75.81 |
0.9176 |
0.0001 |
267 |
2 |
71.12 |
2012-11-17 |
| 95. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
75.57 |
0.8553 |
0.0209 |
174 |
1 |
75.57 |
2011-12-02 |
| 96. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
75.28 |
0.9023 |
0.0185 |
231 |
1 |
75.28 |
2013-11-22 |
| 97. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
74.67 |
0.9148 |
-0.0428 |
317 |
1 |
74.67 |
2013-10-07 |
| 98. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
74.65 |
0.9814 |
-0.0716 |
364 |
1 |
74.65 |
2011-12-18 |
| 99. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
73.81 |
0.9243 |
-0.0243 |
448 |
1 |
73.81 |
2011-12-03 |
| 100. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
73.17 |
1.0083 |
-0.1112 |
273 |
1 |
73.17 |
2013-10-20 |
| 101. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
71.71 |
0.9976 |
-0.1418 |
174 |
1 |
71.71 |
2013-10-07 |
| 102. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
71.39 |
0.9049 |
-0.0677 |
351 |
1 |
71.39 |
2015-01-07 |
| 103. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
68.22 |
0.7876 |
0.0092 |
316 |
1 |
68.22 |
2012-11-16 |
| 104. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
66.23 |
0.9651 |
-0.1585 |
389 |
1 |
66.23 |
2011-12-18 |
| 105. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
58.00 |
0.8153 |
-0.1374 |
200 |
1 |
58.00 |
2011-12-02 |
| 106. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
56.26 |
0.9567 |
-0.2617 |
184 |
1 |
56.26 |
2011-12-02 |