| 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... |
122.58 |
1.0800 |
0.1315 |
213 |
2 |
117.49 |
2011-04-04 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
118.24 |
1.1086 |
0.0625 |
233 |
4 |
112.37 |
2011-04-25 |
| 3. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
117.61 |
1.0669 |
0.1014 |
379 |
1 |
117.61 |
2011-03-15 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
116.97 |
1.0638 |
0.0925 |
247 |
5 |
113.25 |
2011-03-16 |
| 5. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
115.99 |
1.0362 |
0.1193 |
437 |
3 |
111.04 |
2011-03-09 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
115.73 |
1.0881 |
0.0544 |
210 |
3 |
108.67 |
2011-03-22 |
| 7. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
114.52 |
1.0387 |
0.1001 |
333 |
1 |
114.52 |
2011-03-10 |
| 8. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
114.12 |
1.0466 |
0.0833 |
230 |
1 |
114.12 |
2011-04-19 |
| 9. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
113.75 |
1.0461 |
0.0830 |
318 |
4 |
106.63 |
2011-05-02 |
| 10. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
113.54 |
1.0427 |
0.0826 |
269 |
3 |
106.83 |
2011-03-10 |
| 11. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
113.50 |
1.0601 |
0.0608 |
256 |
3 |
101.77 |
2011-03-15 |
| 12. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
113.13 |
1.0777 |
0.0408 |
226 |
2 |
109.61 |
2011-03-22 |
| 13. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
112.84 |
1.0755 |
0.0426 |
243 |
2 |
109.41 |
2011-03-17 |
| 14. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
112.49 |
1.1198 |
-0.0069 |
247 |
1 |
112.49 |
2011-02-09 |
| 15. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
112.29 |
1.0529 |
0.0622 |
373 |
1 |
112.29 |
2011-04-20 |
| 16. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
112.13 |
1.0562 |
0.0601 |
360 |
3 |
107.71 |
2011-03-22 |
| 17. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
111.69 |
1.0264 |
0.0755 |
191 |
1 |
111.69 |
2011-01-28 |
| 18. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
110.53 |
1.0588 |
0.0354 |
281 |
3 |
109.43 |
2011-03-22 |
| 19. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
110.50 |
1.0686 |
0.0296 |
354 |
2 |
106.04 |
2011-02-09 |
| 20. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
110.03 |
1.1070 |
-0.0185 |
265 |
2 |
108.36 |
2011-04-18 |
| 21. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
109.86 |
1.0227 |
0.0715 |
378 |
1 |
109.86 |
2011-03-10 |
| 22. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
109.84 |
0.9787 |
0.1130 |
364 |
1 |
109.84 |
2011-03-22 |
| 23. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
109.69 |
1.0698 |
0.0237 |
303 |
2 |
106.19 |
2011-04-04 |
| 24. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
109.12 |
1.0461 |
0.0392 |
286 |
1 |
109.12 |
2011-03-10 |
| 25. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
108.95 |
1.0199 |
0.0550 |
225 |
4 |
101.81 |
2011-03-04 |
| 26. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
108.71 |
1.0736 |
0.0053 |
350 |
1 |
108.71 |
2011-02-09 |
| 27. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
108.34 |
1.1138 |
-0.0325 |
341 |
1 |
108.34 |
2011-02-09 |
| 28. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
108.22 |
1.0800 |
-0.0159 |
129 |
1 |
108.22 |
2011-05-03 |
| 29. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
108.15 |
1.0426 |
0.0240 |
131 |
2 |
104.45 |
2011-03-10 |
| 30. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
108.13 |
1.0676 |
0.0082 |
456 |
1 |
108.13 |
2011-04-25 |
| 31. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
107.73 |
1.0479 |
0.0174 |
205 |
3 |
106.73 |
2011-03-21 |
| 32. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
107.64 |
1.0600 |
0.0061 |
351 |
4 |
100.30 |
2011-03-01 |
| 33. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
106.87 |
1.0418 |
0.0168 |
214 |
2 |
102.85 |
2011-04-25 |
| 34. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
106.50 |
1.0111 |
0.0557 |
452 |
1 |
106.50 |
2011-03-14 |
| 35. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
106.41 |
1.0667 |
-0.0030 |
308 |
1 |
106.41 |
2011-03-16 |
| 36. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
106.16 |
0.9909 |
0.0642 |
334 |
2 |
103.69 |
2011-03-22 |
| 37. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
106.07 |
1.0414 |
0.0075 |
234 |
1 |
106.07 |
2011-03-10 |
| 38. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
105.87 |
0.9987 |
0.0538 |
236 |
1 |
105.87 |
2011-04-25 |
| 39. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
105.77 |
1.0538 |
0.0059 |
367 |
2 |
99.16 |
2011-04-25 |
| 40. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
105.23 |
1.0697 |
-0.0184 |
341 |
1 |
105.23 |
2011-04-25 |
| 41. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
105.15 |
1.0857 |
-0.0323 |
393 |
1 |
105.15 |
2011-02-25 |
| 42. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
104.90 |
1.0639 |
-0.0240 |
303 |
2 |
104.44 |
2011-03-21 |
| 43. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
104.70 |
1.0628 |
-0.0243 |
363 |
1 |
104.70 |
2011-02-02 |
| 44. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
104.59 |
1.0124 |
0.0284 |
275 |
1 |
104.59 |
2011-03-16 |
| 45. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
104.55 |
1.0481 |
-0.0202 |
255 |
2 |
100.36 |
2011-02-25 |
| 46. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
104.39 |
1.0035 |
0.0304 |
310 |
2 |
100.68 |
2011-03-09 |
| 47. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
104.38 |
1.0059 |
0.0287 |
283 |
1 |
104.38 |
2011-03-17 |
| 48. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
104.37 |
1.0493 |
-0.0093 |
264 |
2 |
97.75 |
2011-04-25 |
| 49. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
104.16 |
1.0901 |
-0.0572 |
288 |
1 |
104.16 |
2011-02-08 |
| 50. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
104.08 |
1.0333 |
-0.0082 |
176 |
3 |
103.23 |
2011-03-21 |
| 51. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
104.05 |
1.0865 |
-0.0570 |
237 |
1 |
104.05 |
2011-02-09 |
| 52. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
103.39 |
1.0567 |
-0.0338 |
314 |
1 |
103.39 |
2011-03-01 |
| 53. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
103.15 |
1.0444 |
-0.0095 |
487 |
2 |
100.56 |
2011-03-10 |
| 54. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
102.94 |
1.0036 |
0.0163 |
277 |
1 |
102.94 |
2011-02-15 |
| 55. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
102.62 |
1.0543 |
-0.0367 |
360 |
1 |
102.62 |
2011-02-11 |
| 56. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
102.35 |
1.0403 |
-0.0291 |
234 |
1 |
102.35 |
2011-03-09 |
| 57. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
101.78 |
1.0033 |
0.0041 |
203 |
1 |
101.78 |
2011-03-02 |
| 58. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
101.66 |
0.9852 |
0.0204 |
235 |
2 |
95.35 |
2011-02-16 |
| 59. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
101.55 |
1.0753 |
-0.0636 |
206 |
1 |
101.55 |
2011-03-07 |
| 60. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
101.03 |
1.0370 |
-0.0376 |
262 |
2 |
100.83 |
2011-02-11 |
| 61. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
100.87 |
1.0883 |
-0.0835 |
189 |
1 |
100.87 |
2011-01-28 |
| 62. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
100.85 |
1.0877 |
-0.0936 |
129 |
1 |
100.85 |
2011-02-02 |
| 63. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
100.56 |
1.0067 |
0.0023 |
422 |
2 |
94.64 |
2011-02-25 |
| 64. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
100.24 |
1.0867 |
-0.0992 |
171 |
1 |
100.24 |
2011-02-15 |
| 65. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
99.73 |
1.0250 |
-0.0347 |
271 |
1 |
99.73 |
2011-02-03 |
| 66. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
99.25 |
0.9524 |
0.0466 |
410 |
1 |
99.25 |
2011-02-07 |
| 67. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
99.14 |
1.0197 |
-0.0405 |
204 |
1 |
99.14 |
2011-02-28 |
| 68. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
98.59 |
0.9949 |
-0.0088 |
304 |
1 |
98.59 |
2011-02-07 |
| 69. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
98.58 |
1.0595 |
-0.0909 |
166 |
1 |
98.58 |
2011-01-27 |
| 70. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
98.45 |
1.0616 |
-0.0804 |
304 |
1 |
98.45 |
2011-02-09 |
| 71. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
97.83 |
1.0404 |
-0.0673 |
406 |
1 |
97.83 |
2011-02-16 |
| 72. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
97.82 |
1.0287 |
-0.0617 |
269 |
1 |
97.82 |
2011-03-02 |
| 73. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
96.76 |
1.0060 |
-0.0422 |
244 |
1 |
96.76 |
2011-02-28 |
| 74. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
96.07 |
0.9873 |
-0.0261 |
396 |
2 |
95.89 |
2011-02-09 |
| 75. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
95.52 |
1.1093 |
-0.1704 |
220 |
1 |
95.52 |
2011-02-02 |
| 76. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
94.93 |
0.9957 |
-0.0569 |
323 |
1 |
94.93 |
2011-01-28 |
| 77. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
94.35 |
0.9660 |
-0.0253 |
258 |
1 |
94.35 |
2011-01-28 |
| 78. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
93.75 |
1.0464 |
-0.1138 |
294 |
2 |
93.04 |
2011-02-25 |
| 79. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
93.16 |
0.9673 |
-0.0430 |
292 |
1 |
93.16 |
2011-02-16 |
| 80. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
93.02 |
1.0039 |
-0.0777 |
255 |
1 |
93.02 |
2011-02-02 |
| 81. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
92.65 |
1.0128 |
-0.0894 |
369 |
1 |
92.65 |
2011-02-08 |
| 82. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
92.34 |
1.0341 |
-0.1217 |
273 |
1 |
92.34 |
2011-01-28 |
| 83. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
92.11 |
1.0372 |
-0.1266 |
249 |
1 |
92.11 |
2011-01-28 |
| 84. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
91.92 |
1.0334 |
-0.1246 |
261 |
1 |
91.92 |
2011-02-02 |
| 85. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
91.25 |
1.0464 |
-0.1377 |
213 |
1 |
91.25 |
2011-01-28 |
| 86. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
90.39 |
1.0272 |
-0.1353 |
226 |
1 |
90.39 |
2011-02-02 |
| 87. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
90.30 |
0.9598 |
-0.0646 |
209 |
1 |
90.30 |
2011-02-09 |
| 88. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
89.63 |
1.0672 |
-0.1822 |
239 |
1 |
89.63 |
2011-02-07 |
| 89. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
88.85 |
1.0194 |
-0.1434 |
224 |
1 |
88.85 |
2011-02-02 |
| 90. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
87.31 |
1.0132 |
-0.1498 |
371 |
1 |
87.31 |
2011-01-28 |
| 91. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
86.87 |
0.8880 |
-0.0288 |
296 |
1 |
86.87 |
2011-02-02 |
| 92. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
86.49 |
0.9676 |
-0.1074 |
247 |
1 |
86.49 |
2011-02-07 |
| 93. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
81.87 |
0.9346 |
-0.1138 |
471 |
1 |
81.87 |
2011-01-28 |
| 94. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
81.80 |
0.9324 |
-0.1107 |
440 |
1 |
81.80 |
2011-02-03 |
| 95. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
80.27 |
0.9503 |
-0.1639 |
211 |
1 |
80.27 |
2011-02-01 |
| 96. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
79.14 |
0.9636 |
-0.1829 |
281 |
1 |
79.14 |
2011-01-28 |
| 97. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
77.89 |
1.0125 |
-0.2483 |
171 |
1 |
77.89 |
2011-05-04 |
| 98. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
76.60 |
0.9269 |
-0.1626 |
269 |
1 |
76.60 |
2011-01-28 |
| 99. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
76.50 |
1.0582 |
-0.3060 |
180 |
1 |
76.50 |
2011-05-04 |
| 100. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
76.28 |
1.0736 |
-0.3163 |
256 |
1 |
76.28 |
2011-05-04 |
| 101. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
75.62 |
0.8830 |
-0.1336 |
300 |
1 |
75.62 |
2011-02-03 |
| 102. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
69.30 |
1.0178 |
-0.3360 |
207 |
1 |
69.30 |
2011-05-04 |
| 103. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
69.01 |
1.0845 |
-0.4048 |
212 |
1 |
69.01 |
2011-05-04 |
| 104. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
61.30 |
0.9583 |
-0.3536 |
237 |
1 |
61.30 |
2011-05-04 |