| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
144.97 |
1.0033 |
0.2095 |
189 |
1 |
144.97 |
2012-12-26 |
| 2. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
141.06 |
1.0365 |
0.1795 |
162 |
1 |
141.06 |
2011-10-02 |
| 3. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
140.49 |
1.0523 |
0.1251 |
256 |
2 |
129.90 |
2012-12-26 |
| 4. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
140.18 |
1.0331 |
0.1436 |
234 |
1 |
140.18 |
2012-12-26 |
| 5. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
139.80 |
1.0788 |
0.0912 |
171 |
1 |
139.80 |
2011-09-25 |
| 6. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
139.60 |
1.0669 |
0.1403 |
213 |
1 |
139.60 |
2011-10-02 |
| 7. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
137.03 |
1.0183 |
0.1285 |
191 |
1 |
137.03 |
2011-09-29 |
| 8. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
136.75 |
1.1022 |
0.0826 |
259 |
1 |
136.75 |
2012-12-26 |
| 9. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
135.48 |
0.9671 |
0.1964 |
379 |
1 |
135.48 |
2013-06-11 |
| 10. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
135.19 |
1.0774 |
0.0884 |
304 |
1 |
135.19 |
2012-12-26 |
| 11. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
134.56 |
1.0352 |
0.0985 |
341 |
1 |
134.56 |
2011-09-25 |
| 12. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
133.69 |
0.9772 |
0.1432 |
217 |
1 |
133.69 |
2011-09-25 |
| 13. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
133.06 |
1.0545 |
0.1047 |
416 |
1 |
133.06 |
2011-09-25 |
| 14. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
133.03 |
1.0211 |
0.1276 |
213 |
1 |
133.03 |
2013-06-11 |
| 15. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
132.94 |
1.0498 |
0.0627 |
180 |
1 |
132.94 |
2011-09-25 |
| 16. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
131.64 |
0.9746 |
0.1606 |
405 |
1 |
131.64 |
2012-12-26 |
| 17. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
131.52 |
0.9468 |
0.1586 |
276 |
1 |
131.52 |
2011-12-11 |
| 18. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
131.23 |
1.0516 |
0.0506 |
281 |
1 |
131.23 |
2011-09-29 |
| 19. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
129.39 |
0.9074 |
0.1862 |
396 |
1 |
129.39 |
2011-10-02 |
| 20. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
128.97 |
1.0292 |
0.0529 |
262 |
2 |
127.42 |
2011-10-02 |
| 21. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
128.82 |
1.0412 |
0.0407 |
225 |
1 |
128.82 |
2011-10-02 |
| 22. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
128.51 |
0.9846 |
0.0934 |
281 |
1 |
128.51 |
2011-10-02 |
| 23. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
127.87 |
0.9786 |
0.0951 |
235 |
1 |
127.87 |
2011-12-11 |
| 24. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
127.66 |
1.0328 |
0.0784 |
356 |
1 |
127.66 |
2011-09-29 |
| 25. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
126.86 |
0.8996 |
0.1606 |
192 |
2 |
117.73 |
2011-09-29 |
| 26. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
126.78 |
0.9994 |
0.0965 |
269 |
1 |
126.78 |
2013-06-11 |
| 27. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
126.59 |
1.0528 |
0.0059 |
201 |
1 |
126.59 |
2013-06-11 |
| 28. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
124.72 |
1.0714 |
-0.0332 |
129 |
1 |
124.72 |
2011-09-25 |
| 29. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
124.32 |
1.0795 |
-0.0052 |
226 |
1 |
124.32 |
2011-10-02 |
| 30. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
124.22 |
1.0463 |
-0.0077 |
182 |
2 |
101.97 |
2011-09-25 |
| 31. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
123.55 |
0.9351 |
0.0970 |
190 |
1 |
123.55 |
2011-10-02 |
| 32. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
123.29 |
1.0358 |
0.0414 |
349 |
1 |
123.29 |
2011-09-25 |
| 33. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
123.17 |
1.0347 |
0.0256 |
550 |
1 |
123.17 |
2011-12-11 |
| 34. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
122.45 |
1.0060 |
0.0173 |
171 |
1 |
122.45 |
2011-09-25 |
| 35. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
122.43 |
1.0677 |
-0.0094 |
284 |
2 |
122.11 |
2011-12-11 |
| 36. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
122.33 |
1.1114 |
-0.0869 |
247 |
1 |
122.33 |
2011-12-11 |
| 37. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
122.12 |
0.9997 |
0.0295 |
382 |
1 |
122.12 |
2011-09-25 |
| 38. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
121.93 |
1.0213 |
-0.0005 |
240 |
1 |
121.93 |
2012-12-26 |
| 39. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
121.88 |
1.0013 |
0.0210 |
273 |
2 |
117.85 |
2012-12-26 |
| 40. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
121.48 |
0.9168 |
0.1048 |
240 |
1 |
121.48 |
2011-09-25 |
| 41. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
121.25 |
1.0574 |
-0.0113 |
205 |
1 |
121.25 |
2011-09-25 |
| 42. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
121.17 |
1.0829 |
-0.0643 |
288 |
1 |
121.17 |
2012-12-26 |
| 43. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
121.16 |
1.1016 |
-0.0848 |
233 |
1 |
121.16 |
2011-10-02 |
| 44. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
121.12 |
1.0944 |
-0.0330 |
308 |
1 |
121.12 |
2011-12-23 |
| 45. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
121.00 |
1.0058 |
0.0333 |
411 |
1 |
121.00 |
2013-06-11 |
| 46. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
120.88 |
1.0289 |
-0.0094 |
276 |
1 |
120.88 |
2011-10-02 |
| 47. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
120.72 |
0.9125 |
0.1028 |
308 |
4 |
114.45 |
2012-12-26 |
| 48. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
120.12 |
0.9649 |
0.0427 |
193 |
1 |
120.12 |
2011-12-11 |
| 49. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
119.96 |
1.0053 |
-0.0002 |
232 |
1 |
119.96 |
2013-06-11 |
| 50. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
119.96 |
1.0154 |
0.0415 |
351 |
1 |
119.96 |
2013-06-11 |
| 51. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
119.60 |
0.9734 |
0.0306 |
289 |
1 |
119.60 |
2013-06-11 |
| 52. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
119.54 |
1.0391 |
-0.0296 |
358 |
1 |
119.54 |
2011-12-11 |
| 53. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
119.44 |
0.9855 |
0.0507 |
258 |
2 |
118.07 |
2012-12-26 |
| 54. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
119.41 |
0.9937 |
0.0339 |
429 |
1 |
119.41 |
2011-10-02 |
| 55. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
119.30 |
1.0619 |
-0.0566 |
354 |
1 |
119.30 |
2011-12-11 |
| 56. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
119.28 |
1.0595 |
-0.0557 |
379 |
1 |
119.28 |
2012-12-26 |
| 57. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
118.97 |
1.0117 |
0.0315 |
297 |
2 |
109.29 |
2011-09-25 |
| 58. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
118.92 |
0.9500 |
0.0502 |
362 |
1 |
118.92 |
2011-09-25 |
| 59. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
118.86 |
1.0533 |
-0.0287 |
257 |
1 |
118.86 |
2011-10-02 |
| 60. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
118.47 |
1.0004 |
0.0181 |
469 |
1 |
118.47 |
2011-12-23 |
| 61. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
117.35 |
0.9631 |
0.0730 |
345 |
1 |
117.35 |
2011-12-11 |
| 62. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
117.26 |
0.9601 |
0.0288 |
308 |
1 |
117.26 |
2011-10-02 |
| 63. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
117.24 |
1.0441 |
-0.0589 |
252 |
1 |
117.24 |
2011-09-25 |
| 64. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
116.97 |
1.0485 |
-0.0326 |
153 |
1 |
116.97 |
2011-09-25 |
| 65. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
116.94 |
0.9665 |
0.0641 |
326 |
1 |
116.94 |
2012-12-26 |
| 66. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
116.55 |
0.9383 |
0.0613 |
471 |
1 |
116.55 |
2011-10-02 |
| 67. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
116.47 |
1.0337 |
-0.0570 |
214 |
1 |
116.47 |
2011-09-25 |
| 68. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
116.37 |
1.0361 |
-0.0588 |
269 |
1 |
116.37 |
2011-09-25 |
| 69. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
115.89 |
0.9426 |
0.0330 |
317 |
1 |
115.89 |
2011-09-29 |
| 70. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
115.83 |
0.9672 |
0.0114 |
396 |
1 |
115.83 |
2011-09-25 |
| 71. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
115.68 |
0.9155 |
0.1042 |
168 |
1 |
115.68 |
2011-09-25 |
| 72. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
115.00 |
0.9508 |
0.0475 |
384 |
1 |
115.00 |
2011-09-25 |
| 73. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
114.59 |
0.9279 |
0.0403 |
317 |
1 |
114.59 |
2011-10-02 |
| 74. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
114.35 |
0.9936 |
-0.0344 |
311 |
1 |
114.35 |
2012-12-26 |
| 75. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
113.94 |
0.9758 |
-0.0193 |
314 |
1 |
113.94 |
2011-10-02 |
| 76. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
113.53 |
0.9756 |
-0.0247 |
229 |
1 |
113.53 |
2012-12-26 |
| 77. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
112.85 |
0.9072 |
0.0373 |
237 |
1 |
112.85 |
2011-09-25 |
| 78. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
112.73 |
1.0441 |
-0.0571 |
316 |
1 |
112.73 |
2011-09-25 |
| 79. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
112.39 |
1.0334 |
-0.0973 |
131 |
1 |
112.39 |
2011-10-02 |
| 80. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
111.54 |
0.9966 |
-0.0617 |
259 |
1 |
111.54 |
2011-10-02 |
| 81. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
111.35 |
1.0534 |
-0.1171 |
357 |
1 |
111.35 |
2011-09-25 |
| 82. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
111.05 |
1.0885 |
-0.1222 |
341 |
1 |
111.05 |
2011-10-02 |
| 83. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
110.49 |
0.9668 |
0.0022 |
383 |
1 |
110.49 |
2011-09-25 |
| 84. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
110.47 |
1.0767 |
-0.1526 |
212 |
1 |
110.47 |
2012-12-26 |
| 85. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
110.03 |
0.9540 |
-0.0335 |
285 |
1 |
110.03 |
2012-12-26 |
| 86. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
109.80 |
1.0141 |
-0.0572 |
304 |
1 |
109.80 |
2013-06-11 |
| 87. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
109.70 |
0.8753 |
0.0539 |
427 |
1 |
109.70 |
2011-09-25 |
| 88. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
109.29 |
1.0389 |
-0.1208 |
318 |
1 |
109.29 |
2011-10-02 |
| 89. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
108.93 |
0.8770 |
0.0394 |
300 |
1 |
108.93 |
2011-09-25 |
| 90. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
108.49 |
0.8947 |
0.0200 |
366 |
1 |
108.49 |
2013-06-11 |
| 91. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
107.82 |
0.9709 |
-0.0257 |
397 |
1 |
107.82 |
2011-12-11 |
| 92. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
107.66 |
0.9673 |
-0.0257 |
232 |
1 |
107.66 |
2011-09-25 |
| 93. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
107.39 |
0.8919 |
0.0068 |
205 |
2 |
105.41 |
2011-09-25 |
| 94. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
106.90 |
1.0109 |
-0.1143 |
276 |
1 |
106.90 |
2013-06-11 |
| 95. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
106.82 |
0.9898 |
-0.0566 |
353 |
1 |
106.82 |
2011-10-02 |
| 96. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
106.60 |
0.9148 |
-0.0198 |
317 |
1 |
106.60 |
2013-06-11 |
| 97. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
106.24 |
0.9964 |
-0.1061 |
203 |
2 |
102.56 |
2013-06-11 |
| 98. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
105.60 |
1.1018 |
-0.2236 |
220 |
1 |
105.60 |
2011-10-02 |
| 99. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
105.04 |
0.9176 |
0.0015 |
365 |
1 |
105.04 |
2011-09-25 |
| 100. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
104.82 |
0.9365 |
-0.0567 |
248 |
2 |
98.90 |
2013-06-11 |
| 101. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
104.40 |
0.9212 |
-0.0434 |
323 |
1 |
104.40 |
2011-10-02 |
| 102. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
104.35 |
1.0168 |
-0.1407 |
271 |
1 |
104.35 |
2011-12-11 |
| 103. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
103.58 |
1.0669 |
-0.1670 |
286 |
1 |
103.58 |
2012-12-26 |
| 104. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
103.29 |
0.9234 |
-0.0530 |
346 |
1 |
103.29 |
2012-12-26 |
| 105. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
102.67 |
0.9289 |
-0.0714 |
204 |
1 |
102.67 |
2011-09-25 |
| 106. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
102.58 |
0.9798 |
-0.1262 |
199 |
1 |
102.58 |
2011-09-25 |
| 107. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
102.31 |
0.9372 |
-0.0756 |
320 |
1 |
102.31 |
2012-12-26 |
| 108. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
102.24 |
0.9897 |
-0.1358 |
274 |
1 |
102.24 |
2011-09-25 |
| 109. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
97.21 |
0.9045 |
-0.0903 |
235 |
1 |
97.21 |
2013-06-11 |
| 110. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
92.63 |
0.8105 |
-0.0405 |
204 |
1 |
92.63 |
2011-10-02 |
| 111. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
90.73 |
0.8467 |
-0.0636 |
343 |
1 |
90.73 |
2011-10-02 |
| 112. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
83.07 |
0.8958 |
-0.1976 |
322 |
1 |
83.07 |
2011-09-25 |
| 113. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
80.90 |
0.8890 |
-0.2179 |
199 |
1 |
80.90 |
2011-09-29 |
| 114. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
66.99 |
0.9786 |
-0.4271 |
193 |
1 |
66.99 |
2011-10-02 |