| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
98.26 |
1.0459 |
0.4328 |
200 |
1 |
98.26 |
2025-03-02 |
| 2. |
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am n... |
87.60 |
1.0138 |
0.3044 |
192 |
1 |
87.60 |
2025-03-02 |
| 3. |
I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the sens... |
85.68 |
1.0084 |
0.2810 |
214 |
2 |
78.23 |
2016-04-11 |
| 4. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
83.58 |
1.0943 |
0.1635 |
206 |
2 |
77.81 |
2016-04-11 |
| 5. |
The cool morning, pale as pearl, threw tendrils of mist over... |
82.79 |
1.0442 |
0.2017 |
331 |
2 |
78.98 |
2025-03-02 |
| 6. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
81.45 |
0.9682 |
0.2575 |
143 |
1 |
81.45 |
2016-04-03 |
| 7. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
81.44 |
1.0343 |
0.1912 |
242 |
2 |
69.99 |
2016-04-05 |
| 8. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
80.22 |
1.0567 |
0.1505 |
303 |
1 |
80.22 |
2016-04-03 |
| 9. |
These memories lose their meaning when I think of love as so... |
78.66 |
1.0975 |
0.0862 |
197 |
1 |
78.66 |
2025-03-02 |
| 10. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
78.49 |
1.0516 |
0.1296 |
281 |
1 |
78.49 |
2016-04-03 |
| 11. |
Never give up on everything if one thing is too hard. Never ... |
78.48 |
1.0751 |
0.1059 |
323 |
1 |
78.48 |
2016-04-03 |
| 12. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
78.17 |
1.0740 |
0.1023 |
264 |
1 |
78.17 |
2016-04-05 |
| 13. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
78.12 |
0.9936 |
0.1820 |
227 |
1 |
78.12 |
2025-03-02 |
| 14. |
I built this castle, now we are trapped on the throne. I'm s... |
78.10 |
1.0431 |
0.1322 |
178 |
1 |
78.10 |
2025-03-02 |
| 15. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
77.99 |
1.0993 |
0.0743 |
265 |
1 |
77.99 |
2016-04-03 |
| 16. |
Because memory is an unreliable thing that picks and chooses... |
77.80 |
1.1190 |
0.0518 |
278 |
1 |
77.80 |
2025-03-01 |
| 17. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
77.44 |
1.0211 |
0.1443 |
213 |
1 |
77.44 |
2025-03-02 |
| 18. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
76.93 |
1.0240 |
0.1337 |
256 |
2 |
68.54 |
2016-04-11 |
| 19. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
76.85 |
1.1323 |
0.0242 |
341 |
1 |
76.85 |
2025-02-24 |
| 20. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
75.73 |
1.0863 |
0.0533 |
210 |
1 |
75.73 |
2016-04-06 |
| 21. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
75.62 |
0.9649 |
0.1731 |
193 |
1 |
75.62 |
2016-04-11 |
| 22. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
75.55 |
0.9820 |
0.1549 |
267 |
2 |
75.10 |
2016-04-11 |
| 23. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
75.28 |
1.0150 |
0.1178 |
325 |
1 |
75.28 |
2016-04-06 |
| 24. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
75.22 |
1.0598 |
0.0721 |
196 |
1 |
75.22 |
2016-04-03 |
| 25. |
People worry about losing species diversity in the rain fore... |
75.07 |
1.0021 |
0.1276 |
427 |
1 |
75.07 |
2025-03-02 |
| 26. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
73.06 |
1.0941 |
0.0053 |
256 |
1 |
73.06 |
2016-04-11 |
| 27. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
72.67 |
0.9976 |
0.0960 |
174 |
1 |
72.67 |
2025-02-24 |
| 28. |
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not ... |
72.64 |
1.1182 |
-0.0251 |
164 |
1 |
72.64 |
2016-04-03 |
| 29. |
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the ... |
72.22 |
1.0696 |
0.0172 |
317 |
1 |
72.22 |
2016-04-03 |
| 30. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
71.71 |
1.0948 |
-0.0157 |
153 |
1 |
71.71 |
2016-04-03 |
| 31. |
Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be... |
71.57 |
0.9817 |
0.0953 |
282 |
1 |
71.57 |
2016-04-03 |
| 32. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
71.50 |
1.0787 |
-0.0027 |
237 |
1 |
71.50 |
2016-04-02 |
| 33. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
71.47 |
0.9831 |
0.0924 |
469 |
3 |
66.84 |
2016-04-06 |
| 34. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
71.30 |
1.0883 |
-0.0153 |
303 |
1 |
71.30 |
2016-04-03 |
| 35. |
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a ch... |
71.24 |
1.0118 |
0.0603 |
250 |
1 |
71.24 |
2016-04-03 |
| 36. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
70.71 |
0.9706 |
0.0935 |
216 |
1 |
70.71 |
2016-04-03 |
| 37. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
70.53 |
1.0125 |
0.0489 |
413 |
1 |
70.53 |
2025-03-02 |
| 38. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
70.32 |
0.9907 |
0.0675 |
211 |
1 |
70.32 |
2016-04-02 |
| 39. |
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all do... |
70.28 |
1.0677 |
-0.0101 |
239 |
1 |
70.28 |
2025-03-06 |
| 40. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
70.24 |
1.0498 |
0.0072 |
180 |
1 |
70.24 |
2016-04-05 |
| 41. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
69.27 |
0.9084 |
0.1340 |
300 |
1 |
69.27 |
2016-04-03 |
| 42. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
69.23 |
1.0053 |
0.0365 |
232 |
1 |
69.23 |
2016-04-03 |
| 43. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
69.23 |
1.0613 |
-0.0195 |
266 |
1 |
69.23 |
2016-04-11 |
| 44. |
I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about wh... |
69.21 |
1.0711 |
-0.0296 |
344 |
1 |
69.21 |
2025-02-24 |
| 45. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
68.88 |
0.9866 |
0.0499 |
218 |
1 |
68.88 |
2016-04-11 |
| 46. |
Take care where you're going, doing all the things you do. E... |
68.49 |
1.0366 |
-0.0059 |
289 |
1 |
68.49 |
2016-04-02 |
| 47. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
68.23 |
0.9814 |
0.0454 |
364 |
1 |
68.23 |
2016-04-02 |
| 48. |
In another experiment involving students, respondents were a... |
68.22 |
0.9941 |
0.0325 |
540 |
1 |
68.22 |
2025-03-01 |
| 49. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
67.99 |
0.9673 |
0.0558 |
232 |
1 |
67.99 |
2025-03-02 |
| 50. |
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an ur... |
67.95 |
0.9884 |
0.0341 |
365 |
1 |
67.95 |
2016-04-06 |
| 51. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
67.63 |
1.0477 |
-0.0300 |
360 |
1 |
67.63 |
2016-04-11 |
| 52. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
67.53 |
1.0078 |
0.0084 |
280 |
1 |
67.53 |
2016-04-11 |
| 53. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
67.24 |
0.9758 |
0.0361 |
314 |
2 |
63.04 |
2016-04-11 |
| 54. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
67.20 |
1.0529 |
-0.0416 |
351 |
1 |
67.20 |
2016-04-03 |
| 55. |
Every time I pull my hair, well, it's only out of fear that ... |
66.79 |
1.0147 |
-0.0096 |
191 |
1 |
66.79 |
2025-03-02 |
| 56. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
66.59 |
1.0008 |
0.0013 |
473 |
1 |
66.59 |
2025-02-24 |
| 57. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
66.29 |
1.0677 |
-0.0701 |
284 |
1 |
66.29 |
2016-04-11 |
| 58. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
66.00 |
0.9578 |
0.0354 |
281 |
1 |
66.00 |
2016-04-11 |
| 59. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
65.61 |
0.9640 |
0.0233 |
334 |
1 |
65.61 |
2025-02-25 |
| 60. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
65.57 |
0.9243 |
0.0624 |
448 |
2 |
63.72 |
2025-03-02 |
| 61. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
65.54 |
1.0263 |
-0.0400 |
267 |
1 |
65.54 |
2016-04-03 |
| 62. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
65.39 |
1.0120 |
-0.0280 |
290 |
1 |
65.39 |
2016-04-11 |
| 63. |
Well, we're doing mighty fine, I do suppose, in our streak o... |
65.38 |
1.0668 |
-0.0829 |
398 |
1 |
65.38 |
2025-02-24 |
| 64. |
You cannot pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder ... |
65.37 |
0.9198 |
0.0639 |
173 |
1 |
65.37 |
2016-04-03 |
| 65. |
What you gonna do with your man there? You're always gonna h... |
65.33 |
1.0272 |
-0.0441 |
329 |
1 |
65.33 |
2016-04-03 |
| 66. |
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It ... |
65.16 |
1.0153 |
-0.0347 |
261 |
1 |
65.16 |
2016-04-05 |
| 67. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
64.99 |
1.0201 |
-0.0421 |
375 |
1 |
64.99 |
2016-04-03 |
| 68. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
64.75 |
1.0669 |
-0.0925 |
213 |
1 |
64.75 |
2016-04-11 |
| 69. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
64.42 |
1.0004 |
-0.0310 |
212 |
1 |
64.42 |
2016-04-11 |
| 70. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
63.90 |
0.8595 |
0.1021 |
242 |
1 |
63.90 |
2016-04-05 |
| 71. |
Finally, there are those languages, such as Turkish, Finnish... |
62.87 |
0.9008 |
0.0453 |
353 |
1 |
62.87 |
2016-04-03 |
| 72. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
62.63 |
1.0292 |
-0.0867 |
262 |
1 |
62.63 |
2016-04-02 |
| 73. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
62.50 |
1.0767 |
-0.1362 |
212 |
1 |
62.50 |
2016-04-02 |
| 74. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
62.37 |
0.9622 |
-0.0236 |
392 |
1 |
62.37 |
2016-04-03 |
| 75. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
62.18 |
0.9372 |
-0.0015 |
320 |
1 |
62.18 |
2016-04-11 |
| 76. |
OK, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a ... |
62.16 |
0.9951 |
-0.0597 |
299 |
1 |
62.16 |
2016-04-03 |
| 77. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
61.90 |
1.0132 |
-0.0817 |
143 |
1 |
61.90 |
2016-04-03 |
| 78. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
61.70 |
0.9266 |
0.0019 |
267 |
1 |
61.70 |
2016-04-03 |
| 79. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
61.60 |
0.8852 |
0.0418 |
201 |
1 |
61.60 |
2016-04-11 |
| 80. |
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary fo... |
60.98 |
0.9175 |
0.0002 |
240 |
1 |
60.98 |
2016-04-03 |
| 81. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
60.94 |
0.9546 |
-0.0375 |
198 |
1 |
60.94 |
2025-03-01 |
| 82. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
60.94 |
0.9513 |
-0.0342 |
354 |
1 |
60.94 |
2016-04-03 |
| 83. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
60.87 |
1.0141 |
-0.0981 |
304 |
1 |
60.87 |
2016-04-05 |
| 84. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
60.59 |
1.0531 |
-0.1413 |
272 |
1 |
60.59 |
2016-04-11 |
| 85. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
59.91 |
0.9485 |
-0.0469 |
291 |
1 |
59.91 |
2016-04-03 |
| 86. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
59.73 |
0.9904 |
-0.0916 |
203 |
1 |
59.73 |
2016-04-03 |
| 87. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
59.71 |
1.0515 |
-0.1530 |
250 |
1 |
59.71 |
2016-04-02 |
| 88. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
59.35 |
1.0384 |
-0.1453 |
183 |
1 |
59.35 |
2016-04-02 |
| 89. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
59.29 |
0.8553 |
0.0369 |
174 |
1 |
59.29 |
2016-04-11 |
| 90. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
59.04 |
0.9570 |
-0.0685 |
287 |
1 |
59.04 |
2016-04-03 |
| 91. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
58.94 |
0.9339 |
-0.0469 |
310 |
1 |
58.94 |
2016-04-11 |
| 92. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
58.94 |
0.9986 |
-0.1116 |
283 |
1 |
58.94 |
2016-04-11 |
| 93. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
58.87 |
0.9678 |
-0.0819 |
445 |
1 |
58.87 |
2016-04-03 |
| 94. |
The firm-foundation theory argues that each investment instr... |
58.64 |
1.0514 |
-0.1690 |
257 |
1 |
58.64 |
2025-03-02 |
| 95. |
Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle fro... |
58.44 |
0.9689 |
-0.0895 |
407 |
1 |
58.44 |
2025-03-02 |
| 96. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
58.12 |
1.0799 |
-0.2053 |
243 |
1 |
58.12 |
2016-04-05 |
| 97. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
57.99 |
0.9855 |
-0.1128 |
258 |
2 |
56.12 |
2016-04-11 |
| 98. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
57.66 |
0.9675 |
-0.0998 |
383 |
1 |
57.66 |
2016-04-03 |
| 99. |
Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't sim... |
57.39 |
1.0150 |
-0.1514 |
411 |
1 |
57.39 |
2025-03-02 |
| 100. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
56.80 |
0.9910 |
-0.1362 |
295 |
1 |
56.80 |
2016-04-06 |
| 101. |
Ever seen the size of one of their molars? They go through b... |
56.02 |
0.9250 |
-0.0820 |
348 |
1 |
56.02 |
2016-04-02 |
| 102. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
55.43 |
0.9289 |
-0.0948 |
204 |
1 |
55.43 |
2016-04-03 |
| 103. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
55.16 |
0.9527 |
-0.1226 |
251 |
1 |
55.16 |
2016-04-11 |
| 104. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
53.64 |
0.8467 |
-0.0395 |
343 |
1 |
53.64 |
2025-03-02 |
| 105. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
53.33 |
0.8826 |
-0.0801 |
296 |
1 |
53.33 |
2016-04-03 |
| 106. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
52.45 |
0.8382 |
-0.0489 |
268 |
1 |
52.45 |
2016-04-02 |
| 107. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
48.89 |
0.8602 |
-0.1245 |
206 |
1 |
48.89 |
2016-04-03 |
| 108. |
I'll dive in the sky. Oh, the waters alive! I'll float down ... |
48.11 |
0.9449 |
-0.2209 |
170 |
1 |
48.11 |
2025-03-02 |
| 109. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
31.73 |
1.0232 |
-0.5457 |
236 |
1 |
31.73 |
2016-04-06 |