| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
152.98 |
1.0462 |
0.2594 |
184 |
2 |
127.02 |
2014-09-13 |
| 2. |
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want t... |
142.37 |
1.0022 |
0.2128 |
177 |
1 |
142.37 |
2022-04-02 |
| 3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
140.16 |
1.0829 |
0.1132 |
288 |
1 |
140.16 |
2016-09-14 |
| 4. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
139.63 |
1.0078 |
0.1838 |
280 |
1 |
139.63 |
2016-01-22 |
| 5. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
138.16 |
1.0334 |
0.1457 |
131 |
1 |
138.16 |
2016-09-14 |
| 6. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
137.76 |
1.0292 |
0.1465 |
262 |
1 |
137.76 |
2016-01-22 |
| 7. |
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. I loo... |
137.51 |
1.0185 |
0.1550 |
240 |
1 |
137.51 |
2021-12-05 |
| 8. |
I walk a mile with a smile and I don't know, I don't care wh... |
137.39 |
1.0580 |
0.1145 |
264 |
1 |
137.39 |
2022-04-02 |
| 9. |
I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner. I am... |
136.28 |
1.0925 |
0.0705 |
222 |
1 |
136.28 |
2022-11-05 |
| 10. |
If I ruled the world every day would be the first day of spr... |
135.96 |
1.0646 |
0.0957 |
316 |
1 |
135.96 |
2021-11-21 |
| 11. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
135.29 |
1.0016 |
0.1530 |
218 |
1 |
135.29 |
2021-11-21 |
| 12. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
134.87 |
0.9681 |
0.1829 |
378 |
1 |
134.87 |
2014-09-13 |
| 13. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
133.85 |
1.0389 |
0.1034 |
318 |
1 |
133.85 |
2014-09-13 |
| 14. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
133.67 |
0.9976 |
0.1432 |
174 |
1 |
133.67 |
2014-12-15 |
| 15. |
If you're reading this, you've gotten out. And if you've com... |
133.10 |
1.0594 |
0.0765 |
436 |
1 |
133.10 |
2021-11-21 |
| 16. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
132.34 |
1.0263 |
0.1031 |
267 |
1 |
132.34 |
2016-01-22 |
| 17. |
They say the past is etched in stone, but it isn't. It's smo... |
132.27 |
0.9663 |
0.1625 |
322 |
1 |
132.27 |
2018-01-17 |
| 18. |
Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening... |
131.13 |
1.0538 |
0.0653 |
244 |
1 |
131.13 |
2023-11-05 |
| 19. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
131.12 |
1.0141 |
0.1049 |
381 |
2 |
126.21 |
2021-12-05 |
| 20. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
130.71 |
1.1215 |
-0.0060 |
200 |
1 |
130.71 |
2015-11-19 |
| 21. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
130.67 |
1.0257 |
0.0895 |
401 |
1 |
130.67 |
2015-02-13 |
| 22. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
129.69 |
1.0498 |
0.0570 |
180 |
1 |
129.69 |
2014-09-14 |
| 23. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
129.61 |
1.0463 |
0.0598 |
182 |
1 |
129.61 |
2016-09-14 |
| 24. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
129.26 |
1.0506 |
0.0525 |
277 |
1 |
129.26 |
2014-09-13 |
| 25. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
129.04 |
0.9768 |
0.1244 |
387 |
1 |
129.04 |
2014-09-14 |
| 26. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
128.53 |
1.0031 |
0.0938 |
304 |
2 |
124.80 |
2025-03-17 |
| 27. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
128.35 |
0.9593 |
0.1361 |
398 |
1 |
128.35 |
2014-09-14 |
| 28. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
127.59 |
1.0429 |
0.0460 |
259 |
1 |
127.59 |
2015-11-19 |
| 29. |
Maybe, the only thing that has to make sense about being som... |
127.30 |
1.1262 |
-0.0398 |
200 |
1 |
127.30 |
2023-11-05 |
| 30. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
126.06 |
1.0714 |
0.0044 |
129 |
2 |
122.14 |
2022-04-02 |
| 31. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
126.05 |
1.0615 |
0.0142 |
305 |
1 |
126.05 |
2014-09-18 |
| 32. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
125.96 |
0.9289 |
0.1461 |
204 |
1 |
125.96 |
2014-09-13 |
| 33. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
125.74 |
0.9365 |
0.1366 |
248 |
2 |
123.75 |
2016-09-14 |
| 34. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
124.83 |
1.0719 |
-0.0066 |
360 |
1 |
124.83 |
2014-09-13 |
| 35. |
Waving colored flags, we won't surrender, there's no standin... |
124.80 |
0.9918 |
0.0733 |
140 |
1 |
124.80 |
2023-03-17 |
| 36. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
124.70 |
1.0389 |
0.0253 |
340 |
1 |
124.70 |
2015-04-06 |
| 37. |
You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the... |
124.39 |
0.9713 |
0.0903 |
162 |
1 |
124.39 |
2018-01-17 |
| 38. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
124.34 |
0.9994 |
0.0617 |
269 |
1 |
124.34 |
2014-09-13 |
| 39. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
124.03 |
1.0213 |
0.0372 |
240 |
1 |
124.03 |
2016-01-22 |
| 40. |
Everyone's creeping up to the money god, putting tongues whe... |
123.31 |
0.9831 |
0.0692 |
326 |
1 |
123.31 |
2017-08-15 |
| 41. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
122.28 |
0.9691 |
0.0745 |
223 |
1 |
122.28 |
2015-02-14 |
| 42. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
122.13 |
0.9540 |
0.0883 |
285 |
1 |
122.13 |
2014-09-13 |
| 43. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
121.99 |
0.8533 |
0.1878 |
232 |
1 |
121.99 |
2014-09-13 |
| 44. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
121.53 |
0.9740 |
0.0632 |
209 |
1 |
121.53 |
2014-09-18 |
| 45. |
They live meaningless lives. They waste their precious days ... |
121.47 |
1.0162 |
0.0204 |
372 |
1 |
121.47 |
2021-12-05 |
| 46. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
121.21 |
1.0264 |
0.0080 |
422 |
1 |
121.21 |
2016-09-14 |
| 47. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
121.04 |
1.1068 |
-0.0738 |
393 |
1 |
121.04 |
2016-09-14 |
| 48. |
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's a... |
120.64 |
0.9673 |
0.0623 |
200 |
1 |
120.64 |
2021-11-21 |
| 49. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
120.42 |
1.0725 |
-0.0448 |
233 |
2 |
114.04 |
2016-01-22 |
| 50. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
120.30 |
1.0361 |
-0.0094 |
269 |
1 |
120.30 |
2016-01-22 |
| 51. |
But you know that when the truth is told, you can get what y... |
119.82 |
1.0502 |
-0.0276 |
196 |
1 |
119.82 |
2022-04-02 |
| 52. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
119.63 |
1.0379 |
-0.0170 |
245 |
1 |
119.63 |
2014-09-14 |
| 53. |
It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting he... |
119.62 |
1.0424 |
-0.0215 |
171 |
1 |
119.62 |
2016-09-14 |
| 54. |
There'll always be the argument that video games are meant t... |
119.38 |
1.0304 |
-0.0116 |
378 |
1 |
119.38 |
2017-08-15 |
| 55. |
To say that nothing is true is to realize that the foundatio... |
118.91 |
1.0627 |
-0.0479 |
311 |
1 |
118.91 |
2023-11-05 |
| 56. |
If sharks were men, they would build enormous boxes in the o... |
118.82 |
1.0378 |
-0.0238 |
589 |
1 |
118.82 |
2023-11-05 |
| 57. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
118.79 |
0.9786 |
0.0352 |
235 |
1 |
118.79 |
2015-02-13 |
| 58. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
118.15 |
0.9857 |
0.0226 |
293 |
1 |
118.15 |
2014-09-18 |
| 59. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
118.05 |
1.0090 |
-0.0015 |
282 |
1 |
118.05 |
2015-11-19 |
| 60. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
117.72 |
0.9614 |
0.0432 |
292 |
1 |
117.72 |
2021-12-05 |
| 61. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
117.61 |
1.0668 |
-0.0631 |
350 |
1 |
117.61 |
2015-11-19 |
| 62. |
In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea.... |
117.01 |
1.0605 |
-0.0619 |
229 |
1 |
117.01 |
2023-11-05 |
| 63. |
You are the true master of death, because the true master do... |
116.80 |
1.0944 |
-0.0976 |
209 |
1 |
116.80 |
2022-04-02 |
| 64. |
He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good... |
116.36 |
1.0474 |
-0.0544 |
347 |
1 |
116.36 |
2022-04-02 |
| 65. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
116.20 |
1.0768 |
-0.0851 |
295 |
1 |
116.20 |
2014-09-13 |
| 66. |
Here's what I think happened: the old man heard the fight be... |
116.01 |
1.0336 |
-0.0436 |
353 |
1 |
116.01 |
2022-04-02 |
| 67. |
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short interva... |
115.91 |
1.0635 |
-0.0743 |
230 |
1 |
115.91 |
2018-01-17 |
| 68. |
Don't change your name, keep it the same for fear I may lose... |
115.88 |
1.0262 |
-0.0373 |
299 |
1 |
115.88 |
2022-11-05 |
| 69. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
115.75 |
0.9910 |
-0.0032 |
295 |
1 |
115.75 |
2016-01-22 |
| 70. |
An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries la... |
115.34 |
1.0184 |
-0.0341 |
330 |
1 |
115.34 |
2023-11-05 |
| 71. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
115.31 |
0.9601 |
0.0240 |
308 |
1 |
115.31 |
2014-09-13 |
| 72. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
115.10 |
0.9675 |
0.0148 |
383 |
1 |
115.10 |
2016-01-18 |
| 73. |
You know the kind of guy that does nothing but bad things an... |
114.81 |
1.0600 |
-0.0802 |
419 |
1 |
114.81 |
2022-01-18 |
| 74. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
114.76 |
0.9723 |
0.0071 |
364 |
1 |
114.76 |
2016-01-22 |
| 75. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
114.46 |
1.0968 |
-0.1200 |
365 |
1 |
114.46 |
2016-06-19 |
| 76. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
114.37 |
0.9508 |
0.0253 |
384 |
1 |
114.37 |
2014-12-15 |
| 77. |
My wife deserves vengeance. Doesn't make a difference whethe... |
114.37 |
0.9955 |
-0.0194 |
230 |
1 |
114.37 |
2023-03-17 |
| 78. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
114.05 |
0.8826 |
0.0907 |
296 |
2 |
112.60 |
2018-01-17 |
| 79. |
But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians becaus... |
114.02 |
1.0320 |
-0.0589 |
641 |
1 |
114.02 |
2022-04-02 |
| 80. |
It is truly amazing what you can do when you believe in your... |
113.92 |
1.0457 |
-0.0735 |
299 |
1 |
113.92 |
2022-01-18 |
| 81. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
113.72 |
0.9359 |
0.0346 |
353 |
2 |
107.89 |
2014-09-14 |
| 82. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
113.67 |
1.0534 |
-0.0833 |
357 |
1 |
113.67 |
2014-09-18 |
| 83. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
113.37 |
1.0515 |
-0.0840 |
250 |
1 |
113.37 |
2014-09-13 |
| 84. |
I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all,... |
113.14 |
1.1532 |
-0.1876 |
257 |
1 |
113.14 |
2023-11-05 |
| 85. |
I wanna hold you when I'm not supposed to. When I'm lying cl... |
113.06 |
1.0292 |
-0.0643 |
190 |
1 |
113.06 |
2022-04-02 |
| 86. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
112.34 |
0.9212 |
0.0375 |
323 |
1 |
112.34 |
2014-09-18 |
| 87. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
112.11 |
1.0169 |
-0.0601 |
346 |
1 |
112.11 |
2015-02-14 |
| 88. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
112.00 |
1.0763 |
-0.1205 |
367 |
1 |
112.00 |
2014-09-14 |
| 89. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
111.45 |
1.0331 |
-0.0820 |
234 |
1 |
111.45 |
2014-09-13 |
| 90. |
Well, the zombies were having fun. The party had just begun.... |
111.43 |
0.8953 |
0.0557 |
298 |
1 |
111.43 |
2018-01-17 |
| 91. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
110.01 |
0.9566 |
-0.0178 |
576 |
1 |
110.01 |
2014-09-14 |
| 92. |
I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about be... |
109.82 |
0.9538 |
-0.0166 |
518 |
1 |
109.82 |
2019-12-27 |
| 93. |
Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you,... |
109.78 |
0.9499 |
-0.0130 |
100 |
1 |
109.78 |
2016-09-14 |
| 94. |
It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when E... |
109.17 |
1.0262 |
-0.0945 |
394 |
1 |
109.17 |
2025-03-17 |
| 95. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
109.14 |
0.9841 |
-0.0527 |
334 |
1 |
109.14 |
2014-09-13 |
| 96. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
108.71 |
1.0403 |
-0.1126 |
275 |
1 |
108.71 |
2014-09-13 |
| 97. |
Cause the world might do me in. It's all right cause I'm wit... |
108.06 |
1.0596 |
-0.1374 |
238 |
1 |
108.06 |
2022-04-02 |
| 98. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
108.05 |
0.8878 |
0.0343 |
346 |
1 |
108.05 |
2014-09-13 |
| 99. |
I've met another man. He's the best man I've ever met. He's ... |
107.63 |
1.0028 |
-0.0843 |
168 |
1 |
107.63 |
2023-11-05 |
| 100. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
107.61 |
0.9382 |
-0.0198 |
440 |
1 |
107.61 |
2014-09-14 |
| 101. |
In the early days of America, when men wore ruffles on their... |
105.42 |
1.0133 |
-0.1136 |
354 |
1 |
105.42 |
2022-04-02 |
| 102. |
I know I'm supposed to help you, but I can't. Instead of bei... |
105.37 |
0.9753 |
-0.0761 |
145 |
1 |
105.37 |
2019-12-27 |
| 103. |
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place an... |
105.19 |
0.9856 |
-0.0879 |
365 |
1 |
105.19 |
2018-01-17 |
| 104. |
Sometimes I wish I could turn back time, impossible as it ma... |
104.53 |
1.0710 |
-0.1789 |
244 |
1 |
104.53 |
2022-01-18 |
| 105. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
104.48 |
0.9693 |
-0.0777 |
360 |
1 |
104.48 |
2014-09-13 |
| 106. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
103.06 |
0.9612 |
-0.0817 |
256 |
1 |
103.06 |
2014-09-13 |
| 107. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
101.36 |
0.9168 |
-0.0518 |
240 |
1 |
101.36 |
2015-04-06 |
| 108. |
Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to se... |
101.08 |
0.9466 |
-0.0840 |
116 |
1 |
101.08 |
2016-09-14 |
| 109. |
Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used ... |
100.91 |
0.9650 |
-0.1038 |
154 |
1 |
100.91 |
2022-04-02 |
| 110. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
100.75 |
1.0565 |
-0.1967 |
247 |
1 |
100.75 |
2016-01-18 |
| 111. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
100.43 |
0.9965 |
-0.1394 |
310 |
1 |
100.43 |
2015-02-13 |
| 112. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
99.80 |
1.0141 |
-0.1624 |
304 |
1 |
99.80 |
2014-09-18 |
| 113. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
99.29 |
0.9411 |
-0.0937 |
318 |
1 |
99.29 |
2014-09-14 |
| 114. |
Every day that I don't beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feu... |
98.45 |
1.0086 |
-0.1684 |
314 |
1 |
98.45 |
2023-03-17 |
| 115. |
Our emotions cloud our perceptions. It's no wonder this libr... |
97.46 |
1.0548 |
-0.2231 |
148 |
1 |
97.46 |
2023-11-05 |
| 116. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
96.47 |
0.9640 |
-0.1407 |
334 |
1 |
96.47 |
2023-11-05 |
| 117. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
96.39 |
0.9275 |
-0.1049 |
211 |
1 |
96.39 |
2014-09-13 |
| 118. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
95.28 |
1.0796 |
-0.2665 |
129 |
1 |
95.28 |
2014-09-14 |
| 119. |
Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swe... |
93.64 |
1.0932 |
-0.2941 |
192 |
1 |
93.64 |
2019-12-27 |
| 120. |
Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "ident... |
92.22 |
1.0663 |
-0.2793 |
222 |
1 |
92.22 |
2023-11-05 |
| 121. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
90.15 |
1.0214 |
-0.2520 |
281 |
1 |
90.15 |
2016-06-19 |
| 122. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
89.84 |
0.9866 |
-0.2199 |
218 |
1 |
89.84 |
2014-09-13 |
| 123. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
81.48 |
1.0038 |
-0.3084 |
237 |
1 |
81.48 |
2014-09-14 |
| 124. |
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where ... |
81.26 |
1.0723 |
-0.3788 |
113 |
1 |
81.26 |
2023-03-17 |