| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you... |
149.39 |
1.0000 |
0.2385 |
174 |
1 |
149.39 |
2020-06-18 |
| 2. |
All around us there are powers. There are animals like the w... |
145.98 |
1.0615 |
0.1488 |
419 |
1 |
145.98 |
2022-09-19 |
| 3. |
I don't think stand-up should really work on the page, so th... |
144.63 |
1.0294 |
0.1697 |
292 |
2 |
138.97 |
2020-06-18 |
| 4. |
Don't know much about history. Don't know much biology. Don'... |
144.27 |
1.0199 |
0.1762 |
239 |
1 |
144.27 |
2020-06-16 |
| 5. |
See, that's the kind of thing I'm hoping to avoid. So when m... |
143.56 |
1.0578 |
0.1324 |
215 |
1 |
143.56 |
2021-02-23 |
| 6. |
If I were a rich man, I'd build a big tall house with rooms ... |
141.98 |
1.0775 |
0.0996 |
277 |
1 |
141.98 |
2023-07-25 |
| 7. |
Do you understand the expense people went through to keep yo... |
141.48 |
1.0577 |
0.1152 |
228 |
1 |
141.48 |
2020-06-16 |
| 8. |
I hate nice girls. If they so much as say hello, it stays on... |
140.53 |
1.0263 |
0.1388 |
276 |
1 |
140.53 |
2023-07-25 |
| 9. |
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters bu... |
140.08 |
1.0316 |
0.1297 |
153 |
1 |
140.08 |
2020-07-30 |
| 10. |
In a business like this the people with the power are the on... |
139.47 |
1.1108 |
0.0455 |
143 |
1 |
139.47 |
2017-09-12 |
| 11. |
They got an apartment with deep pile carpet and a couple of ... |
139.15 |
0.9687 |
0.1849 |
166 |
1 |
139.15 |
2020-06-18 |
| 12. |
Spend all your time waiting for that second chance, for a br... |
139.12 |
1.1309 |
0.0225 |
176 |
1 |
139.12 |
2020-06-26 |
| 13. |
He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you c... |
137.96 |
0.9180 |
0.2258 |
111 |
1 |
137.96 |
2020-06-18 |
| 14. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
137.88 |
1.1081 |
0.0350 |
206 |
1 |
137.88 |
2024-04-17 |
| 15. |
And his dad's smile faded just a bit - the prodigy could rea... |
137.45 |
1.0394 |
0.1001 |
313 |
1 |
137.45 |
2020-06-26 |
| 16. |
Grandma used to give great nutritional advice: Eat your vege... |
137.28 |
0.9135 |
0.2246 |
227 |
1 |
137.28 |
2020-07-30 |
| 17. |
We never get to change the past. We never get to know the fu... |
136.81 |
1.0840 |
0.0502 |
326 |
1 |
136.81 |
2022-08-29 |
| 18. |
For every man there is a cause which he would gladly die for... |
136.24 |
1.0714 |
0.0581 |
242 |
1 |
136.24 |
2021-02-23 |
| 19. |
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought... |
136.15 |
1.1378 |
-0.0090 |
144 |
1 |
136.15 |
2020-06-16 |
| 20. |
It wasn't something that I thought about, but I knew that yo... |
135.34 |
1.0293 |
0.0927 |
354 |
1 |
135.34 |
2021-02-23 |
| 21. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
134.60 |
1.1022 |
0.0137 |
259 |
1 |
134.60 |
2020-07-30 |
| 22. |
Money, you've got lots of friends crowding around the door. ... |
134.25 |
1.0159 |
0.0971 |
307 |
1 |
134.25 |
2020-06-26 |
| 23. |
Half the world was pulling on his colors, as nights turned i... |
132.89 |
0.9956 |
0.1061 |
175 |
1 |
132.89 |
2020-07-30 |
| 24. |
Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn a... |
132.32 |
1.0373 |
0.0597 |
541 |
1 |
132.32 |
2018-04-10 |
| 25. |
The green eyes, you're the one that I wanted to find and any... |
131.59 |
1.1213 |
-0.0303 |
113 |
1 |
131.59 |
2019-10-22 |
| 26. |
Meanwhile he himself, the Prince, had risen to his feet; the... |
131.38 |
1.0147 |
0.0745 |
256 |
1 |
131.38 |
2021-02-23 |
| 27. |
What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods... |
130.90 |
1.0927 |
-0.0075 |
198 |
1 |
130.90 |
2017-09-12 |
| 28. |
Look, there's only one thing worse than being a loser. It's ... |
130.47 |
1.0996 |
-0.0179 |
186 |
1 |
130.47 |
2025-09-10 |
| 29. |
First of all, let's stop pretending that everyone can or sho... |
130.34 |
1.0239 |
0.0567 |
351 |
1 |
130.34 |
2019-10-22 |
| 30. |
Outside in the hall, he leant against the wall, breathing de... |
129.77 |
1.0204 |
0.0555 |
311 |
1 |
129.77 |
2023-07-25 |
| 31. |
You cannot defeat me with a blade that does not sparkle with... |
128.94 |
1.0195 |
0.0495 |
239 |
1 |
128.94 |
2022-09-19 |
| 32. |
I guess this time you're really leaving. I heard your suitca... |
128.76 |
0.9802 |
0.0873 |
286 |
1 |
128.76 |
2017-09-12 |
| 33. |
I'm not very good at this, out, being in public. But I felt ... |
128.63 |
1.0774 |
-0.0110 |
219 |
1 |
128.63 |
2019-10-22 |
| 34. |
Ah how shameless - the way these mortals blame the gods. Fro... |
128.52 |
1.0254 |
0.0401 |
210 |
1 |
128.52 |
2025-09-10 |
| 35. |
For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear wa... |
128.07 |
1.0505 |
0.0113 |
205 |
1 |
128.07 |
2020-07-30 |
| 36. |
Our minds are born festering with sin. Some are so blighted,... |
127.91 |
1.0482 |
0.0122 |
268 |
1 |
127.91 |
2020-06-18 |
| 37. |
I didn't know it would be people you barely knew becoming fr... |
127.62 |
1.0146 |
0.0434 |
254 |
1 |
127.62 |
2021-02-23 |
| 38. |
It is known that many of the germs which cause diseases cann... |
127.08 |
1.0309 |
0.0227 |
483 |
1 |
127.08 |
2025-09-10 |
| 39. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
126.95 |
0.9863 |
0.0662 |
339 |
1 |
126.95 |
2020-06-16 |
| 40. |
The firm-foundation theory argues that each investment instr... |
126.93 |
1.0514 |
0.0009 |
257 |
1 |
126.93 |
2020-06-18 |
| 41. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
126.90 |
0.9468 |
0.1053 |
276 |
1 |
126.90 |
2020-06-18 |
| 42. |
I've been alone with you inside my mind and in my dreams I'v... |
126.86 |
1.0429 |
0.0088 |
391 |
1 |
126.86 |
2020-01-23 |
| 43. |
I could tell from the set of his lips, he would say no more ... |
126.52 |
1.0277 |
0.0212 |
333 |
1 |
126.52 |
2023-07-25 |
| 44. |
You know what I'd like to be? A cartoon of some kind. You kn... |
126.18 |
1.0334 |
0.0127 |
289 |
1 |
126.18 |
2017-09-12 |
| 45. |
Oh, and when you held my hand, I knew that it was now or nev... |
125.33 |
0.9278 |
0.1113 |
100 |
1 |
125.33 |
2020-06-16 |
| 46. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
124.54 |
0.9646 |
0.0679 |
264 |
1 |
124.54 |
2020-06-16 |
| 47. |
I know you're into banks and Wall Street, but everyone knows... |
124.49 |
1.0119 |
0.0202 |
194 |
1 |
124.49 |
2017-01-10 |
| 48. |
This is a promise with a catch. Only if you're looking can i... |
124.42 |
0.9701 |
0.0614 |
265 |
1 |
124.42 |
2017-09-12 |
| 49. |
We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words a... |
123.27 |
1.0298 |
-0.0078 |
527 |
1 |
123.27 |
2019-04-22 |
| 50. |
Within some disciplines prediction and practical application... |
122.92 |
0.9237 |
0.0954 |
305 |
1 |
122.92 |
2020-10-17 |
| 51. |
You're just a whiny little basket case who's milking this de... |
122.78 |
1.0141 |
0.0038 |
276 |
1 |
122.78 |
2019-04-22 |
| 52. |
The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money.... |
122.03 |
0.9052 |
0.1065 |
142 |
1 |
122.03 |
2020-06-18 |
| 53. |
I search the faces of the gods... for ways to please you, to... |
121.42 |
1.0497 |
-0.0431 |
264 |
1 |
121.42 |
2018-04-10 |
| 54. |
We want a good life with a nose for things, the fresh wind a... |
121.12 |
1.0474 |
-0.0432 |
193 |
1 |
121.12 |
2017-09-12 |
| 55. |
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with s... |
120.95 |
1.0205 |
-0.0178 |
94 |
1 |
120.95 |
2020-06-18 |
| 56. |
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell whe... |
120.88 |
0.9842 |
0.0180 |
324 |
1 |
120.88 |
2019-04-22 |
| 57. |
I have no idea how I untangled the complicated process of wo... |
118.21 |
1.0360 |
-0.0560 |
196 |
1 |
118.21 |
2022-09-19 |
| 58. |
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himsel... |
117.88 |
1.0595 |
-0.0822 |
263 |
1 |
117.88 |
2017-09-12 |
| 59. |
Bingo! Tanya wants to shout with glee at how the enemy chalk... |
117.77 |
0.9560 |
0.0204 |
271 |
1 |
117.77 |
2020-06-18 |
| 60. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
117.05 |
0.9234 |
0.0470 |
346 |
1 |
117.05 |
2020-10-17 |
| 61. |
Plato is always concerned to advocate views that will make p... |
116.52 |
0.9609 |
0.0051 |
206 |
1 |
116.52 |
2020-06-18 |
| 62. |
There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I sus... |
116.24 |
1.0298 |
-0.0661 |
444 |
1 |
116.24 |
2020-06-18 |
| 63. |
People say I'm lazy, dreaming my life away. Well they give m... |
115.80 |
0.9986 |
-0.0386 |
174 |
1 |
115.80 |
2020-06-26 |
| 64. |
There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back. Well... |
115.54 |
1.0924 |
-0.1345 |
225 |
1 |
115.54 |
2018-04-10 |
| 65. |
I love bagels even though they are one of mankind's most dan... |
114.70 |
1.0379 |
-0.0870 |
321 |
1 |
114.70 |
2017-09-12 |
| 66. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
114.64 |
0.9514 |
-0.0010 |
237 |
1 |
114.64 |
2020-06-18 |
| 67. |
Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two o... |
114.35 |
0.9455 |
0.0025 |
384 |
1 |
114.35 |
2020-07-30 |
| 68. |
Bobby, my uncle loves you. He needs you. So you're gonna get... |
114.21 |
1.0389 |
-0.0920 |
198 |
1 |
114.21 |
2017-09-12 |
| 69. |
Have you ever wanted to sleep for a hundred or thousand year... |
113.57 |
1.0062 |
-0.0646 |
225 |
1 |
113.57 |
2020-06-18 |
| 70. |
Love is corny, when you get right down to it. It has two lef... |
113.19 |
0.9991 |
-0.0607 |
213 |
1 |
113.19 |
2021-02-23 |
| 71. |
Because the peoples of Micronesia and Palau did not have a w... |
111.05 |
0.8890 |
0.0317 |
271 |
1 |
111.05 |
2017-09-12 |
| 72. |
If I had a highway, I would run for the hills. If you could ... |
110.01 |
0.9752 |
-0.0632 |
190 |
1 |
110.01 |
2017-09-12 |
| 73. |
The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; fo... |
109.19 |
1.0028 |
-0.0976 |
292 |
1 |
109.19 |
2017-09-12 |
| 74. |
Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differen... |
109.17 |
0.9838 |
-0.0787 |
426 |
1 |
109.17 |
2017-09-12 |
| 75. |
I hadn't realized that music could unlock things in you, cou... |
108.02 |
1.0179 |
-0.1224 |
222 |
1 |
108.02 |
2017-09-12 |
| 76. |
Aight, look, I know you're not earning what you expected and... |
107.81 |
0.9106 |
-0.0168 |
168 |
1 |
107.81 |
2017-09-12 |
| 77. |
I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. Let my armies be the r... |
107.38 |
0.8598 |
0.0304 |
104 |
1 |
107.38 |
2020-06-18 |
| 78. |
I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had... |
107.19 |
0.9873 |
-0.0986 |
354 |
1 |
107.19 |
2017-09-12 |
| 79. |
If she and I were the only ones left in the world, if we sta... |
105.83 |
1.1205 |
-0.2431 |
228 |
1 |
105.83 |
2024-04-17 |
| 80. |
Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its cl... |
105.36 |
0.9512 |
-0.0777 |
401 |
1 |
105.36 |
2017-09-12 |
| 81. |
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm... |
103.66 |
0.9512 |
-0.0918 |
145 |
1 |
103.66 |
2020-06-18 |
| 82. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
103.44 |
0.7877 |
0.0699 |
142 |
1 |
103.44 |
2020-06-16 |
| 83. |
Three or four generations ago, an order of knights protected... |
103.44 |
0.9120 |
-0.0544 |
357 |
1 |
103.44 |
2017-09-12 |
| 84. |
Although some farmers in the United States and Mexico took u... |
103.39 |
0.8671 |
-0.0099 |
582 |
1 |
103.39 |
2020-07-30 |
| 85. |
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, there's a land that ... |
102.27 |
0.9581 |
-0.1102 |
461 |
1 |
102.27 |
2017-09-12 |
| 86. |
Sprawling on the fringes of the city in geometric order. An ... |
101.37 |
0.9053 |
-0.0649 |
316 |
1 |
101.37 |
2017-09-12 |
| 87. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
101.15 |
0.9684 |
-0.1298 |
388 |
1 |
101.15 |
2017-09-12 |
| 88. |
This is called 90 Mile Beach because it is exactly 55 miles ... |
99.75 |
0.8203 |
0.0067 |
97 |
1 |
99.75 |
2020-06-16 |
| 89. |
Quit complaining! This way I don't have to waste money on mo... |
98.16 |
0.8951 |
-0.0813 |
248 |
1 |
98.16 |
2017-09-12 |
| 90. |
It is no worse because I write of it. It would be no better ... |
97.95 |
1.0472 |
-0.2351 |
163 |
1 |
97.95 |
2017-01-10 |
| 91. |
But no. She shook her head, an imperceptible, forgiving shru... |
97.64 |
0.9259 |
-0.1164 |
308 |
1 |
97.64 |
2017-09-12 |
| 92. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
96.93 |
0.9831 |
-0.1795 |
469 |
1 |
96.93 |
2021-02-23 |
| 93. |
Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at ... |
94.25 |
0.8786 |
-0.0972 |
293 |
1 |
94.25 |
2018-04-10 |
| 94. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
91.84 |
0.8105 |
-0.0491 |
204 |
1 |
91.84 |
2017-01-10 |
| 95. |
I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to... |
86.32 |
1.0129 |
-0.2973 |
68 |
1 |
86.32 |
2021-02-23 |
| 96. |
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be f... |
80.20 |
1.0187 |
-0.3538 |
151 |
1 |
80.20 |
2020-07-30 |
| 97. |
When is a legend a legend? Why is a myth a myth? How old and... |
78.55 |
0.8288 |
-0.1776 |
136 |
1 |
78.55 |
2017-09-12 |