| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings.... |
78.14 |
1.0427 |
0.4683 |
366 |
1 |
78.14 |
2021-03-04 |
| 2. |
Close your eyes in the night and I'll be right in front of y... |
75.48 |
1.0128 |
0.4363 |
347 |
1 |
75.48 |
2021-03-04 |
| 3. |
In America, circus folk ride through town, while bands play ... |
69.85 |
1.0038 |
0.3454 |
215 |
1 |
69.85 |
2020-08-19 |
| 4. |
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To kno... |
65.95 |
1.0686 |
0.2049 |
255 |
1 |
65.95 |
2020-03-09 |
| 5. |
You don't need money, don't take fame. Don't need no credit ... |
64.55 |
1.0563 |
0.1798 |
198 |
1 |
64.55 |
2020-03-09 |
| 6. |
The stuff we call "software" is not like anything that human... |
62.72 |
1.0634 |
0.1473 |
305 |
1 |
62.72 |
2020-03-31 |
| 7. |
One man, one family driven from the land; this rusty car cre... |
62.45 |
1.0377 |
0.1651 |
170 |
1 |
62.45 |
2020-03-19 |
| 8. |
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate o... |
61.22 |
0.9629 |
0.1984 |
117 |
2 |
54.97 |
2019-05-20 |
| 9. |
And he told us of his life in the land of submarines. |
60.95 |
1.1621 |
0.0089 |
53 |
1 |
60.95 |
2019-09-06 |
| 10. |
See, in the perfect world, I would be perfect, world. I don'... |
60.05 |
0.9811 |
0.1632 |
211 |
1 |
60.05 |
2020-03-31 |
| 11. |
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain, I tak... |
59.80 |
0.9593 |
0.1812 |
203 |
1 |
59.80 |
2020-03-09 |
| 12. |
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with s... |
59.03 |
1.0205 |
0.1051 |
94 |
1 |
59.03 |
2020-03-09 |
| 13. |
All my friends are heathens, take it slow. Wait for them to ... |
58.98 |
1.0496 |
0.0842 |
155 |
2 |
54.08 |
2019-05-26 |
| 14. |
You know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time y... |
58.86 |
1.1023 |
0.0271 |
169 |
1 |
58.86 |
2019-09-06 |
| 15. |
Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sobe... |
58.80 |
1.0487 |
0.0758 |
229 |
1 |
58.80 |
2019-05-28 |
| 16. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
58.67 |
0.9763 |
0.1543 |
289 |
1 |
58.67 |
2020-03-31 |
| 17. |
I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off... |
58.04 |
0.9455 |
0.1492 |
96 |
1 |
58.04 |
2019-01-28 |
| 18. |
I have half a mind to make you hurt, to make you bleed, to m... |
57.85 |
0.9949 |
0.1194 |
236 |
1 |
57.85 |
2021-01-08 |
| 19. |
And as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our... |
57.82 |
1.1131 |
-0.0001 |
237 |
1 |
57.82 |
2019-05-20 |
| 20. |
I don't know what it is that makes me love you so. I only kn... |
57.12 |
1.0935 |
-0.0018 |
181 |
1 |
57.12 |
2019-05-20 |
| 21. |
The passage of time in prisons is not in a cell of brick and... |
56.84 |
1.0524 |
0.0457 |
355 |
1 |
56.84 |
2019-05-20 |
| 22. |
In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those w... |
56.61 |
1.1182 |
0.0141 |
204 |
1 |
56.61 |
2019-03-07 |
| 23. |
You can't see the changes we see, we who have been with him ... |
56.57 |
1.0826 |
0.0059 |
166 |
1 |
56.57 |
2019-03-06 |
| 24. |
I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it... |
56.44 |
1.0495 |
0.0270 |
266 |
1 |
56.44 |
2019-05-28 |
| 25. |
I know it's a mistake. But there are certain things in life ... |
56.37 |
1.1513 |
-0.0757 |
207 |
1 |
56.37 |
2019-05-28 |
| 26. |
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead, and the W... |
56.15 |
0.9103 |
0.1587 |
199 |
1 |
56.15 |
2020-03-09 |
| 27. |
Xerox PARC was Xerox's think tank. They were working on all ... |
55.94 |
0.9308 |
0.1359 |
216 |
1 |
55.94 |
2020-04-14 |
| 28. |
Some people pass through your life and you never think about... |
55.87 |
1.1374 |
-0.0659 |
271 |
1 |
55.87 |
2020-03-09 |
| 29. |
Now you make sure you tell old Marlo I burned the money. 'Ca... |
55.73 |
1.0059 |
0.0582 |
242 |
1 |
55.73 |
2019-05-26 |
| 30. |
Listen carefully, my friend. You are stuck in a paradox. It ... |
55.59 |
1.0419 |
0.0215 |
242 |
1 |
55.59 |
2019-03-07 |
| 31. |
Other kids' games are all such a bore! They've got to have r... |
55.31 |
0.8804 |
0.1729 |
252 |
1 |
55.31 |
2020-08-19 |
| 32. |
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores ... |
54.99 |
0.9005 |
0.1489 |
244 |
1 |
54.99 |
2020-03-19 |
| 33. |
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but t... |
54.97 |
1.0210 |
0.0111 |
84 |
1 |
54.97 |
2020-04-25 |
| 34. |
Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls... |
54.87 |
0.9176 |
0.1256 |
166 |
2 |
48.55 |
2020-03-31 |
| 35. |
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an ur... |
54.85 |
0.9884 |
0.0723 |
365 |
1 |
54.85 |
2020-08-19 |
| 36. |
If you've had half as much fun watching the show as we've ha... |
54.75 |
1.0469 |
-0.0147 |
151 |
1 |
54.75 |
2019-01-29 |
| 37. |
Look at these, they're amazing! Which one do you like more? ... |
54.18 |
0.9719 |
0.0577 |
193 |
1 |
54.18 |
2019-05-23 |
| 38. |
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I wo... |
54.00 |
1.0865 |
-0.0471 |
168 |
1 |
54.00 |
2019-02-04 |
| 39. |
Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistan... |
53.92 |
0.9591 |
0.0811 |
194 |
1 |
53.92 |
2019-03-06 |
| 40. |
Situational awareness is key, and agents should not only be ... |
53.85 |
0.9115 |
0.1180 |
236 |
1 |
53.85 |
2019-05-20 |
| 41. |
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very ... |
53.74 |
1.0323 |
0.0061 |
224 |
1 |
53.74 |
2019-05-28 |
| 42. |
I know you're into banks and Wall Street, but everyone knows... |
53.25 |
1.0119 |
0.0092 |
194 |
1 |
53.25 |
2019-05-20 |
| 43. |
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the wo... |
53.24 |
1.0886 |
-0.0661 |
163 |
1 |
53.24 |
2020-04-25 |
| 44. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
53.05 |
1.0389 |
-0.0168 |
318 |
1 |
53.05 |
2019-05-28 |
| 45. |
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and... |
52.94 |
1.0827 |
-0.0590 |
219 |
1 |
52.94 |
2019-09-15 |
| 46. |
This is not some apron-wearing mother you're speaking with -... |
52.73 |
0.9527 |
0.0514 |
281 |
1 |
52.73 |
2020-03-09 |
| 47. |
An informed citizenry has to understand place, not because p... |
52.71 |
1.0167 |
-0.0130 |
177 |
1 |
52.71 |
2019-02-04 |
| 48. |
Most of the people in the industry were young because the gu... |
52.54 |
1.0371 |
-0.0430 |
157 |
1 |
52.54 |
2019-01-28 |
| 49. |
Oh yeah, I know. We're all part-time here. You see that guy ... |
52.47 |
0.8945 |
0.1011 |
272 |
1 |
52.47 |
2020-03-09 |
| 50. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
52.39 |
0.9792 |
0.0666 |
265 |
2 |
50.70 |
2020-03-31 |
| 51. |
I don't know if I will have the time to write any more lette... |
52.33 |
1.0838 |
-0.0738 |
374 |
1 |
52.33 |
2019-02-26 |
| 52. |
In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gath... |
52.32 |
0.9210 |
0.0733 |
180 |
1 |
52.32 |
2019-03-10 |
| 53. |
The truth is that there are a lot of people like you, us, wi... |
52.23 |
1.0473 |
-0.0455 |
286 |
1 |
52.23 |
2020-04-14 |
| 54. |
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes th... |
51.94 |
1.0129 |
-0.0163 |
177 |
1 |
51.94 |
2019-05-20 |
| 55. |
One day, the guy on a buffalo was cruisin' around through th... |
51.79 |
0.8579 |
0.1229 |
286 |
1 |
51.79 |
2020-03-31 |
| 56. |
The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mec... |
51.76 |
0.9380 |
0.0488 |
260 |
1 |
51.76 |
2019-05-28 |
| 57. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
51.74 |
0.9769 |
0.0170 |
263 |
1 |
51.74 |
2019-03-07 |
| 58. |
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were strik... |
51.70 |
0.9209 |
0.0625 |
310 |
1 |
51.70 |
2019-03-11 |
| 59. |
If you're ever feeling bored and aimless in a shopping mall,... |
51.68 |
0.9514 |
0.0353 |
357 |
1 |
51.68 |
2019-03-11 |
| 60. |
I don't know why I go walking at night, but now I'm tired an... |
51.64 |
1.0221 |
-0.0486 |
186 |
1 |
51.64 |
2019-02-26 |
| 61. |
One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. Dur... |
51.50 |
0.9333 |
0.0473 |
204 |
1 |
51.50 |
2019-05-28 |
| 62. |
Once I lived the life of a millionaire, spending my money, I... |
51.46 |
0.9387 |
0.0353 |
576 |
1 |
51.46 |
2019-05-28 |
| 63. |
I was left there with no water and no food while he stumbled... |
51.38 |
1.0272 |
-0.0379 |
293 |
1 |
51.38 |
2019-02-04 |
| 64. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
51.22 |
1.1018 |
-0.1209 |
220 |
1 |
51.22 |
2019-01-28 |
| 65. |
It was my greatest triumph... and I never looked back. You t... |
51.21 |
0.8822 |
0.0899 |
305 |
1 |
51.21 |
2020-03-09 |
| 66. |
I've been alone with you inside my mind and in my dreams I'v... |
51.13 |
1.0429 |
-0.0660 |
391 |
1 |
51.13 |
2019-05-20 |
| 67. |
They damaged my stuff. They smashed up my home. Damaged my s... |
51.07 |
0.8538 |
0.1172 |
301 |
1 |
51.07 |
2020-03-31 |
| 68. |
Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away '... |
50.89 |
1.0194 |
-0.0434 |
233 |
1 |
50.89 |
2019-05-28 |
| 69. |
It was because of you. It was because you were by my side. I... |
50.39 |
1.0178 |
-0.0580 |
200 |
1 |
50.39 |
2019-02-26 |
| 70. |
Once before, I offered you peace. If you had not been so arr... |
50.38 |
0.9575 |
0.0008 |
206 |
1 |
50.38 |
2019-05-28 |
| 71. |
The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Gre... |
50.14 |
0.9713 |
-0.0241 |
132 |
1 |
50.14 |
2019-02-04 |
| 72. |
In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate ... |
49.99 |
0.9381 |
0.0187 |
441 |
1 |
49.99 |
2019-08-12 |
| 73. |
Barry, time is an extremely fragile construct. Any deviation... |
49.85 |
0.9606 |
-0.0135 |
296 |
1 |
49.85 |
2019-03-06 |
| 74. |
It is hard to make that boat go as fast as you want to. The ... |
49.83 |
1.0545 |
-0.1051 |
375 |
1 |
49.83 |
2019-05-19 |
| 75. |
By the time I was ten, playing baseball got to be like eatin... |
49.57 |
0.9616 |
-0.0211 |
224 |
1 |
49.57 |
2019-01-28 |
| 76. |
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to ge... |
49.46 |
1.0559 |
-0.1329 |
110 |
1 |
49.46 |
2019-03-06 |
| 77. |
Most Americans do not own passports. They're not a naturally... |
49.34 |
0.9209 |
0.0197 |
404 |
1 |
49.34 |
2019-05-28 |
| 78. |
When a child enters school for the first time he will encoun... |
49.20 |
1.0140 |
-0.0694 |
243 |
1 |
49.20 |
2019-01-29 |
| 79. |
I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to hav... |
49.09 |
1.0233 |
-0.0807 |
224 |
1 |
49.09 |
2020-03-09 |
| 80. |
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, ... |
49.09 |
1.0396 |
-0.1019 |
212 |
1 |
49.09 |
2019-05-28 |
| 81. |
I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you h... |
49.05 |
0.8886 |
0.0446 |
290 |
1 |
49.05 |
2019-03-10 |
| 82. |
I'm Banta, the blacksmith. I'm forging a bell for the King t... |
48.86 |
0.9013 |
0.0264 |
217 |
1 |
48.86 |
2020-04-25 |
| 83. |
My brother, your father, he and I. Opposites. But I never do... |
48.83 |
1.0090 |
-0.0775 |
191 |
1 |
48.83 |
2019-03-06 |
| 84. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
48.73 |
1.0419 |
-0.1060 |
261 |
1 |
48.73 |
2019-01-28 |
| 85. |
And then there was you, all red curls and smiles, stepping u... |
48.19 |
0.9685 |
-0.0531 |
334 |
1 |
48.19 |
2019-02-26 |
| 86. |
Growing to hate decisive moments, the only thing within a br... |
48.18 |
1.0395 |
-0.1111 |
239 |
1 |
48.18 |
2019-03-11 |
| 87. |
The second (s) is the duration of 9192631770 periods of the ... |
48.17 |
0.7935 |
0.1194 |
178 |
1 |
48.17 |
2020-03-19 |
| 88. |
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life... |
48.08 |
1.0402 |
-0.1429 |
187 |
1 |
48.08 |
2019-12-25 |
| 89. |
Often, after the first years of marriage, the husband seems ... |
47.85 |
1.0496 |
-0.1366 |
217 |
1 |
47.85 |
2019-03-11 |
| 90. |
Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we ... |
47.84 |
0.9800 |
-0.0666 |
353 |
1 |
47.84 |
2019-03-11 |
| 91. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
47.74 |
0.9527 |
-0.0348 |
251 |
1 |
47.74 |
2019-01-28 |
| 92. |
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell whe... |
47.69 |
0.9842 |
-0.0678 |
324 |
1 |
47.69 |
2019-03-07 |
| 93. |
They just use your mind and they never give you credit. It's... |
47.57 |
1.0401 |
-0.1280 |
293 |
1 |
47.57 |
2019-02-04 |
| 94. |
You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great se... |
47.24 |
0.9377 |
-0.0426 |
270 |
1 |
47.24 |
2019-03-10 |
| 95. |
You looked on amazed, and began to suspect yourself of being... |
47.10 |
1.0372 |
-0.1374 |
243 |
1 |
47.10 |
2019-03-06 |
| 96. |
Most sociologists and anthropologists agree on the definitio... |
47.07 |
0.8940 |
0.0062 |
424 |
1 |
47.07 |
2019-03-07 |
| 97. |
Alright, how about the fact that this is actually happening?... |
46.97 |
1.0098 |
-0.1132 |
391 |
1 |
46.97 |
2019-01-28 |
| 98. |
Yeah. You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt r... |
46.80 |
0.9039 |
-0.0200 |
107 |
1 |
46.80 |
2019-01-29 |
| 99. |
I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritas... |
46.35 |
0.9401 |
-0.0593 |
303 |
1 |
46.35 |
2019-01-28 |
| 100. |
Robbers never strike at the homes of the poor; private wealt... |
46.09 |
0.9798 |
-0.1055 |
209 |
1 |
46.09 |
2019-01-29 |
| 101. |
This was the story of Howard Beale: the first known instance... |
45.94 |
0.9135 |
-0.0484 |
114 |
1 |
45.94 |
2019-01-28 |
| 102. |
I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching... |
45.93 |
0.9383 |
-0.0667 |
228 |
1 |
45.93 |
2019-01-29 |
| 103. |
Have you seen the old man in the closed down market, picking... |
45.48 |
1.0371 |
-0.1666 |
205 |
1 |
45.48 |
2019-03-07 |
| 104. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
45.27 |
1.0183 |
-0.1514 |
191 |
1 |
45.27 |
2019-01-28 |
| 105. |
You don't know what's in store, but you know what you're her... |
44.83 |
1.0474 |
-0.1877 |
199 |
1 |
44.83 |
2019-01-28 |
| 106. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
44.73 |
0.9303 |
-0.0764 |
176 |
1 |
44.73 |
2019-01-28 |
| 107. |
My name is Harvey Pekar - that's an unusual name - Harvey Pe... |
44.07 |
0.8923 |
-0.0554 |
246 |
1 |
44.07 |
2019-01-29 |
| 108. |
My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at al... |
43.71 |
1.0220 |
-0.1875 |
244 |
1 |
43.71 |
2019-01-29 |
| 109. |
It's a fallen situation when all eyes are turned in and a lo... |
42.52 |
1.0676 |
-0.2568 |
199 |
1 |
42.52 |
2018-10-25 |
| 110. |
What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there ar... |
42.35 |
0.9299 |
-0.1278 |
296 |
1 |
42.35 |
2019-01-28 |
| 111. |
What's Joey Zasa got to do with this? Joey Zasa's a pazzo. J... |
42.18 |
0.9000 |
-0.0982 |
271 |
1 |
42.18 |
2020-04-14 |
| 112. |
The brain best remembers things that are repeated, rhythmic,... |
41.99 |
0.8096 |
-0.0232 |
114 |
1 |
41.99 |
2019-08-12 |
| 113. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
41.25 |
0.9128 |
-0.0810 |
369 |
1 |
41.25 |
2019-01-28 |
| 114. |
Oh! And it is lovely! Just beautiful. You know you are quite... |
40.44 |
0.9062 |
-0.1475 |
217 |
1 |
40.44 |
2019-01-29 |
| 115. |
I have climbed the highest mountains, I have run through the... |
39.85 |
1.0120 |
-0.2494 |
176 |
1 |
39.85 |
2018-10-25 |
| 116. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
39.71 |
1.0403 |
-0.2620 |
193 |
1 |
39.71 |
2019-01-29 |
| 117. |
And though it's always been with me, I must tear down the wa... |
35.65 |
1.0680 |
-0.3861 |
210 |
1 |
35.65 |
2018-10-25 |
| 118. |
When I'm tired and thinking cold, I hide in my music, forget... |
20.13 |
0.9059 |
-0.5473 |
105 |
1 |
20.13 |
2018-10-25 |