| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
157.67 |
1.0334 |
0.3902 |
131 |
1 |
157.67 |
2010-07-28 |
| 2. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
153.51 |
0.9097 |
0.5239 |
464 |
3 |
112.74 |
2010-07-28 |
| 3. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
150.71 |
1.0197 |
0.3438 |
226 |
1 |
150.71 |
2010-07-28 |
| 4. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
147.41 |
0.9612 |
0.3750 |
256 |
2 |
115.19 |
2008-08-11 |
| 5. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
143.71 |
1.1296 |
0.2018 |
252 |
2 |
132.96 |
2010-07-28 |
| 6. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
141.70 |
1.0561 |
0.2538 |
430 |
2 |
117.12 |
2012-09-13 |
| 7. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
141.56 |
1.0165 |
0.2701 |
392 |
2 |
131.69 |
2010-07-28 |
| 8. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
141.54 |
1.0053 |
0.2752 |
232 |
3 |
127.66 |
2010-07-28 |
| 9. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
140.81 |
1.0486 |
0.2280 |
289 |
2 |
114.93 |
2010-07-28 |
| 10. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
140.19 |
0.9798 |
0.2846 |
199 |
1 |
140.19 |
2010-07-28 |
| 11. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
138.48 |
0.9567 |
0.3400 |
184 |
1 |
138.48 |
2010-07-28 |
| 12. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
137.36 |
0.9468 |
0.2969 |
276 |
3 |
113.21 |
2010-07-28 |
| 13. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
136.60 |
1.0684 |
0.1987 |
253 |
1 |
136.60 |
2010-07-28 |
| 14. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
134.49 |
1.0483 |
0.1667 |
227 |
2 |
118.25 |
2010-07-28 |
| 15. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
133.26 |
1.0515 |
0.1533 |
250 |
1 |
133.26 |
2010-07-28 |
| 16. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
132.72 |
0.9795 |
0.2223 |
308 |
1 |
132.72 |
2010-07-28 |
| 17. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
132.49 |
0.9430 |
0.2493 |
211 |
1 |
132.49 |
2008-08-11 |
| 18. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
131.82 |
0.9899 |
0.1989 |
163 |
1 |
131.82 |
2010-07-28 |
| 19. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
131.22 |
0.9936 |
0.1941 |
311 |
3 |
119.66 |
2010-07-28 |
| 20. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
129.37 |
1.0042 |
0.2084 |
352 |
1 |
129.37 |
2010-07-28 |
| 21. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
126.49 |
0.9946 |
0.1499 |
246 |
1 |
126.49 |
2010-07-28 |
| 22. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
126.10 |
1.0677 |
0.1039 |
284 |
1 |
126.10 |
2010-07-28 |
| 23. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
125.97 |
1.0296 |
0.1168 |
437 |
1 |
125.97 |
2008-08-11 |
| 24. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
125.86 |
0.9500 |
0.1912 |
362 |
2 |
104.70 |
2008-08-11 |
| 25. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
125.63 |
0.9275 |
0.2061 |
211 |
1 |
125.63 |
2010-07-28 |
| 26. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
125.03 |
0.8958 |
0.2402 |
322 |
1 |
125.03 |
2008-08-11 |
| 27. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
124.53 |
0.9843 |
0.1375 |
234 |
2 |
108.92 |
2011-12-11 |
| 28. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
123.74 |
0.9532 |
0.1651 |
258 |
3 |
118.92 |
2010-07-28 |
| 29. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
123.64 |
1.0391 |
0.0857 |
358 |
2 |
111.89 |
2008-08-11 |
| 30. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
122.52 |
0.9513 |
0.1609 |
354 |
2 |
118.98 |
2010-07-28 |
| 31. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
121.28 |
1.0523 |
0.0405 |
256 |
1 |
121.28 |
2010-07-28 |
| 32. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
121.15 |
1.0711 |
0.0197 |
213 |
2 |
107.96 |
2010-07-24 |
| 33. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
121.07 |
1.0034 |
0.0902 |
302 |
1 |
121.07 |
2010-07-28 |
| 34. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
121.01 |
0.9941 |
0.0981 |
217 |
1 |
121.01 |
2008-08-11 |
| 35. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
120.77 |
0.9904 |
0.1426 |
203 |
1 |
120.77 |
2010-07-28 |
| 36. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
119.52 |
1.0031 |
0.1113 |
304 |
1 |
119.52 |
2010-07-28 |
| 37. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
118.38 |
0.8981 |
0.1770 |
393 |
1 |
118.38 |
2010-07-28 |
| 38. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
118.01 |
1.0213 |
0.0426 |
240 |
1 |
118.01 |
2010-07-28 |
| 39. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
116.66 |
1.0521 |
-0.0021 |
171 |
1 |
116.66 |
2010-07-28 |
| 40. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
116.12 |
1.0328 |
0.0551 |
356 |
1 |
116.12 |
2010-07-28 |
| 41. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
115.15 |
1.0349 |
0.0054 |
234 |
3 |
104.69 |
2010-07-28 |
| 42. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
115.00 |
1.0719 |
-0.0047 |
360 |
1 |
115.00 |
2010-07-28 |
| 43. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
114.96 |
1.0516 |
-0.0128 |
281 |
1 |
114.96 |
2010-07-28 |
| 44. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
114.59 |
1.0534 |
-0.0154 |
357 |
1 |
114.59 |
2010-07-28 |
| 45. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
114.16 |
0.9925 |
0.0761 |
247 |
2 |
106.87 |
2011-12-11 |
| 46. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
114.13 |
1.0261 |
0.0036 |
273 |
2 |
101.53 |
2008-08-11 |
| 47. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
114.11 |
0.9997 |
0.0353 |
382 |
2 |
112.84 |
2010-07-28 |
| 48. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
113.99 |
1.0788 |
-0.0541 |
171 |
1 |
113.99 |
2010-07-28 |
| 49. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
113.76 |
0.9776 |
0.0508 |
308 |
1 |
113.76 |
2008-08-11 |
| 50. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
113.27 |
1.0630 |
-0.0061 |
397 |
1 |
113.27 |
2010-07-28 |
| 51. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
113.03 |
0.9871 |
0.0566 |
227 |
1 |
113.03 |
2010-07-28 |
| 52. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
112.70 |
1.0263 |
-0.0086 |
267 |
1 |
112.70 |
2010-07-28 |
| 53. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
112.59 |
0.9785 |
0.0422 |
335 |
1 |
112.59 |
2010-07-28 |
| 54. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
112.09 |
0.8947 |
0.1231 |
366 |
1 |
112.09 |
2008-08-11 |
| 55. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
111.81 |
0.9005 |
0.1084 |
212 |
2 |
107.02 |
2010-07-28 |
| 56. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
111.61 |
1.0529 |
-0.0444 |
351 |
1 |
111.61 |
2010-07-28 |
| 57. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
111.57 |
0.9763 |
0.0314 |
289 |
1 |
111.57 |
2008-08-11 |
| 58. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
111.06 |
0.9670 |
0.0786 |
307 |
1 |
111.06 |
2010-07-28 |
| 59. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
110.45 |
1.0993 |
-0.1035 |
265 |
1 |
110.45 |
2010-07-28 |
| 60. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
110.40 |
1.0013 |
-0.0047 |
273 |
2 |
108.37 |
2010-07-28 |
| 61. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
110.29 |
0.9898 |
0.0443 |
353 |
1 |
110.29 |
2010-07-28 |
| 62. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
110.28 |
0.9881 |
0.0488 |
424 |
1 |
110.28 |
2010-07-28 |
| 63. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
110.17 |
0.9820 |
0.0162 |
267 |
1 |
110.17 |
2010-07-28 |
| 64. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
109.42 |
1.0829 |
-0.0929 |
288 |
1 |
109.42 |
2008-08-11 |
| 65. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
108.24 |
0.9754 |
0.0084 |
362 |
1 |
108.24 |
2010-07-28 |
| 66. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
107.62 |
1.0331 |
-0.0633 |
234 |
1 |
107.62 |
2010-07-24 |
| 67. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
107.27 |
1.0025 |
-0.0328 |
336 |
1 |
107.27 |
2010-07-28 |
| 68. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
107.11 |
1.0004 |
-0.0391 |
212 |
1 |
107.11 |
2010-07-24 |
| 69. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
106.60 |
1.0441 |
-0.0401 |
316 |
2 |
103.66 |
2010-07-28 |
| 70. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
106.23 |
1.0141 |
-0.0185 |
304 |
1 |
106.23 |
2010-07-24 |
| 71. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
105.97 |
0.9578 |
-0.0014 |
281 |
1 |
105.97 |
2008-08-11 |
| 72. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
105.73 |
0.9636 |
-0.0090 |
254 |
1 |
105.73 |
2010-07-28 |
| 73. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
105.60 |
0.9514 |
0.0025 |
237 |
1 |
105.60 |
2008-08-11 |
| 74. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
103.31 |
0.9084 |
0.0260 |
300 |
1 |
103.31 |
2008-08-11 |
| 75. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
102.89 |
1.0125 |
-0.0861 |
224 |
1 |
102.89 |
2011-12-11 |
| 76. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
102.86 |
0.9128 |
0.0572 |
369 |
1 |
102.86 |
2010-07-28 |
| 77. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
102.81 |
0.9893 |
-0.0612 |
323 |
1 |
102.81 |
2008-08-11 |
| 78. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
102.66 |
0.9731 |
-0.0590 |
129 |
2 |
98.14 |
2010-07-28 |
| 79. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
102.46 |
1.0403 |
-0.1005 |
193 |
1 |
102.46 |
2010-07-24 |
| 80. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
102.42 |
0.9857 |
-0.0623 |
293 |
1 |
102.42 |
2010-07-24 |
| 81. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
101.91 |
0.8961 |
0.0203 |
189 |
1 |
101.91 |
2010-07-28 |
| 82. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
101.90 |
0.9309 |
-0.0131 |
284 |
2 |
98.33 |
2010-07-28 |
| 83. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
101.45 |
1.0577 |
-0.1456 |
247 |
1 |
101.45 |
2010-07-28 |
| 84. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
101.24 |
0.9372 |
-0.0196 |
320 |
1 |
101.24 |
2010-07-24 |
| 85. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
100.53 |
1.0763 |
-0.1277 |
367 |
1 |
100.53 |
2010-07-28 |
| 86. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
100.28 |
1.0944 |
-0.1447 |
308 |
1 |
100.28 |
2010-07-28 |
| 87. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
99.89 |
1.0218 |
-0.1234 |
268 |
1 |
99.89 |
2010-07-28 |
| 88. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
99.50 |
0.9330 |
-0.0287 |
360 |
1 |
99.50 |
2010-07-28 |
| 89. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
99.15 |
1.0482 |
-0.1300 |
487 |
1 |
99.15 |
2010-07-28 |
| 90. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
98.78 |
1.0320 |
-0.1036 |
293 |
1 |
98.78 |
2010-07-28 |
| 91. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
98.55 |
0.9922 |
-0.0621 |
341 |
1 |
98.55 |
2010-07-28 |
| 92. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
98.54 |
0.9597 |
-0.0667 |
347 |
1 |
98.54 |
2008-08-11 |
| 93. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
98.45 |
0.9886 |
-0.0980 |
220 |
1 |
98.45 |
2010-07-28 |
| 94. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
98.24 |
1.0214 |
-0.0927 |
281 |
1 |
98.24 |
2010-07-24 |
| 95. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
97.74 |
0.9527 |
-0.0712 |
251 |
1 |
97.74 |
2008-08-11 |
| 96. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
97.64 |
0.9758 |
-0.0944 |
314 |
1 |
97.64 |
2010-07-24 |
| 97. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
97.56 |
1.0398 |
-0.1703 |
110 |
1 |
97.56 |
2011-12-11 |
| 98. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
97.44 |
1.0058 |
-0.1043 |
411 |
1 |
97.44 |
2011-12-11 |
| 99. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
97.00 |
1.0441 |
-0.1678 |
252 |
1 |
97.00 |
2010-07-28 |
| 100. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
96.77 |
0.9485 |
-0.0734 |
291 |
1 |
96.77 |
2010-07-24 |
| 101. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
96.18 |
0.9583 |
-0.0473 |
341 |
1 |
96.18 |
2010-07-28 |
| 102. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
95.94 |
0.9865 |
-0.1203 |
276 |
1 |
95.94 |
2008-08-11 |
| 103. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
94.67 |
1.0502 |
-0.1702 |
535 |
1 |
94.67 |
2012-09-13 |
| 104. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
93.98 |
0.8996 |
-0.0579 |
192 |
1 |
93.98 |
2011-12-11 |
| 105. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
93.84 |
0.9676 |
-0.1134 |
442 |
1 |
93.84 |
2011-12-11 |
| 106. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
93.22 |
0.9991 |
-0.1584 |
225 |
1 |
93.22 |
2008-08-11 |
| 107. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
92.66 |
1.0454 |
-0.2140 |
255 |
1 |
92.66 |
2010-07-24 |
| 108. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
92.18 |
1.0288 |
-0.1660 |
300 |
1 |
92.18 |
2010-07-24 |
| 109. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
92.01 |
0.9769 |
-0.1498 |
263 |
1 |
92.01 |
2008-08-11 |
| 110. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
91.83 |
0.9866 |
-0.1628 |
218 |
2 |
89.49 |
2008-08-11 |
| 111. |
He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to hav... |
91.57 |
0.9425 |
-0.1388 |
564 |
1 |
91.57 |
2018-07-10 |
| 112. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
91.24 |
0.9846 |
-0.1636 |
281 |
1 |
91.24 |
2010-07-24 |
| 113. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
90.62 |
0.9622 |
-0.1393 |
392 |
1 |
90.62 |
2008-08-11 |
| 114. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
88.22 |
0.9942 |
-0.1909 |
483 |
1 |
88.22 |
2008-08-11 |
| 115. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
88.07 |
0.9566 |
-0.1409 |
576 |
1 |
88.07 |
2010-07-20 |
| 116. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
87.16 |
0.9936 |
-0.1887 |
227 |
1 |
87.16 |
2010-07-28 |
| 117. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
87.00 |
0.9125 |
-0.1274 |
308 |
1 |
87.00 |
2008-08-11 |
| 118. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
85.29 |
1.0168 |
-0.2477 |
271 |
1 |
85.29 |
2008-08-11 |
| 119. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
84.95 |
0.9646 |
-0.2009 |
264 |
1 |
84.95 |
2010-07-24 |
| 120. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
83.94 |
0.9691 |
-0.2143 |
223 |
1 |
83.94 |
2008-08-11 |
| 121. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
81.67 |
0.9678 |
-0.1986 |
445 |
1 |
81.67 |
2010-07-28 |
| 122. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
80.92 |
1.0117 |
-0.2392 |
297 |
1 |
80.92 |
2010-07-28 |
| 123. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
80.68 |
0.9710 |
-0.2520 |
173 |
1 |
80.68 |
2008-08-11 |
| 124. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
80.39 |
0.9398 |
-0.2077 |
419 |
1 |
80.39 |
2008-08-11 |
| 125. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
80.04 |
1.0124 |
-0.2952 |
204 |
1 |
80.04 |
2008-08-11 |
| 126. |
The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassi... |
79.46 |
0.8408 |
-0.1466 |
183 |
1 |
79.46 |
2018-07-10 |
| 127. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
79.27 |
0.7876 |
-0.0724 |
316 |
1 |
79.27 |
2010-07-24 |
| 128. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
78.72 |
0.8890 |
-0.1851 |
199 |
1 |
78.72 |
2008-08-11 |
| 129. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
74.84 |
0.9884 |
-0.3172 |
233 |
1 |
74.84 |
2008-08-11 |
| 130. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
70.97 |
0.9912 |
-0.3277 |
237 |
1 |
70.97 |
2010-07-28 |