| 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... |
180.13 |
1.0459 |
0.1444 |
200 |
1 |
180.13 |
2013-04-25 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
175.92 |
1.1016 |
0.0283 |
233 |
1 |
175.92 |
2011-06-16 |
| 3. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
175.80 |
1.1215 |
0.0342 |
200 |
2 |
168.93 |
2013-12-25 |
| 4. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
174.87 |
1.0485 |
0.1115 |
153 |
3 |
164.58 |
2013-12-24 |
| 5. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
174.47 |
1.0498 |
0.0675 |
180 |
1 |
174.47 |
2011-06-16 |
| 6. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
172.80 |
1.0412 |
0.0684 |
225 |
1 |
172.80 |
2013-12-26 |
| 7. |
The idea behind each one was we took a film that we like and... |
172.32 |
1.0462 |
0.0591 |
231 |
1 |
172.32 |
2021-04-25 |
| 8. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
171.73 |
1.0031 |
0.1334 |
304 |
2 |
161.09 |
2013-12-25 |
| 9. |
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is no... |
171.59 |
0.9849 |
0.1008 |
310 |
1 |
171.59 |
2021-04-22 |
| 10. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
171.41 |
1.0885 |
0.0139 |
315 |
2 |
163.54 |
2011-11-06 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
170.83 |
1.0138 |
0.0828 |
231 |
1 |
170.83 |
2011-06-16 |
| 12. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
170.30 |
1.0419 |
0.0508 |
261 |
2 |
157.73 |
2013-12-25 |
| 13. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
169.24 |
1.0385 |
0.0477 |
230 |
2 |
166.55 |
2013-12-25 |
| 14. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
169.17 |
1.0515 |
0.0335 |
250 |
1 |
169.17 |
2013-12-24 |
| 15. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
168.44 |
1.0482 |
0.0533 |
487 |
1 |
168.44 |
2013-12-25 |
| 16. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
167.73 |
0.9905 |
0.1159 |
337 |
1 |
167.73 |
2011-06-25 |
| 17. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
167.63 |
1.0365 |
0.0730 |
162 |
1 |
167.63 |
2010-12-15 |
| 18. |
All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: on... |
166.98 |
1.0284 |
0.0443 |
279 |
1 |
166.98 |
2021-04-25 |
| 19. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
166.74 |
0.9899 |
0.0774 |
163 |
1 |
166.74 |
2013-12-24 |
| 20. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
165.96 |
1.0613 |
0.0043 |
266 |
2 |
164.34 |
2013-12-24 |
| 21. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
165.01 |
0.9681 |
0.0958 |
378 |
1 |
165.01 |
2010-12-15 |
| 22. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
164.55 |
1.0270 |
0.0655 |
255 |
1 |
164.55 |
2011-06-25 |
| 23. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
164.52 |
0.9731 |
0.0747 |
129 |
1 |
164.52 |
2011-11-05 |
| 24. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
164.52 |
0.9527 |
0.1032 |
251 |
3 |
159.35 |
2013-12-24 |
| 25. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
164.04 |
0.9540 |
0.0986 |
285 |
1 |
164.04 |
2013-12-24 |
| 26. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
163.96 |
1.0696 |
-0.0195 |
226 |
1 |
163.96 |
2013-04-25 |
| 27. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
163.86 |
1.0454 |
0.0008 |
255 |
1 |
163.86 |
2010-12-14 |
| 28. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
163.45 |
0.9212 |
0.1294 |
323 |
2 |
155.71 |
2011-11-06 |
| 29. |
Every single night I endure the fight of little wings of whi... |
163.40 |
1.0203 |
0.0286 |
354 |
1 |
163.40 |
2021-04-25 |
| 30. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
162.92 |
1.0403 |
0.0227 |
193 |
1 |
162.92 |
2016-09-16 |
| 31. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
162.75 |
1.0063 |
0.0386 |
371 |
1 |
162.75 |
2013-12-24 |
| 32. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
162.66 |
1.0417 |
0.0006 |
253 |
1 |
162.66 |
2013-12-24 |
| 33. |
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in t... |
162.61 |
1.0202 |
0.0273 |
192 |
1 |
162.61 |
2016-02-29 |
| 34. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
162.58 |
1.0941 |
-0.0188 |
256 |
1 |
162.58 |
2010-12-15 |
| 35. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
162.48 |
1.0025 |
0.0408 |
336 |
2 |
141.57 |
2013-12-26 |
| 36. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
162.43 |
1.0679 |
-0.0025 |
177 |
3 |
153.62 |
2011-06-16 |
| 37. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
162.18 |
0.9365 |
0.1044 |
248 |
1 |
162.18 |
2010-12-15 |
| 38. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
161.89 |
1.0885 |
-0.0161 |
341 |
1 |
161.89 |
2013-12-25 |
| 39. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
161.76 |
1.0684 |
-0.0001 |
253 |
2 |
158.60 |
2013-12-24 |
| 40. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
161.32 |
1.0441 |
-0.0078 |
252 |
1 |
161.32 |
2011-11-05 |
| 41. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
161.16 |
0.9426 |
0.0925 |
317 |
1 |
161.16 |
2011-04-11 |
| 42. |
It is vitally important for us to keep engaging with the wor... |
160.98 |
1.0341 |
0.0005 |
245 |
1 |
160.98 |
2018-01-02 |
| 43. |
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I ... |
160.96 |
1.0213 |
0.0100 |
155 |
1 |
160.96 |
2019-12-18 |
| 44. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
160.82 |
0.9740 |
0.0558 |
209 |
2 |
158.91 |
2013-12-25 |
| 45. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
160.80 |
1.0388 |
0.0254 |
243 |
1 |
160.80 |
2013-12-25 |
| 46. |
There's enough to pass around, you don't gotta wait in line.... |
160.49 |
1.0499 |
-0.0255 |
212 |
1 |
160.49 |
2021-04-22 |
| 47. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
160.40 |
1.0905 |
-0.0282 |
210 |
1 |
160.40 |
2013-12-24 |
| 48. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
160.38 |
1.0516 |
-0.0223 |
281 |
1 |
160.38 |
2013-12-24 |
| 49. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
160.27 |
0.9907 |
0.0699 |
397 |
1 |
160.27 |
2013-12-24 |
| 50. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
160.09 |
1.1018 |
-0.0791 |
220 |
2 |
159.84 |
2013-12-26 |
| 51. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
160.08 |
0.9946 |
0.0319 |
246 |
1 |
160.08 |
2011-06-25 |
| 52. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
159.91 |
0.9772 |
0.0472 |
217 |
1 |
159.91 |
2013-12-24 |
| 53. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
159.45 |
0.9843 |
0.0357 |
234 |
1 |
159.45 |
2011-06-25 |
| 54. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
159.45 |
1.0523 |
-0.0317 |
256 |
1 |
159.45 |
2010-12-14 |
| 55. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
159.10 |
0.9754 |
0.0494 |
362 |
1 |
159.10 |
2011-11-06 |
| 56. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
158.96 |
0.9619 |
0.0609 |
393 |
1 |
158.96 |
2013-12-24 |
| 57. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
158.67 |
1.0297 |
-0.0136 |
249 |
1 |
158.67 |
2010-12-15 |
| 58. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
158.61 |
0.9567 |
0.0609 |
273 |
1 |
158.61 |
2013-12-24 |
| 59. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
157.50 |
0.9429 |
0.0683 |
287 |
1 |
157.50 |
2013-12-24 |
| 60. |
Okay, I don't know you, but I do know that you can fix your ... |
157.41 |
1.0273 |
-0.0199 |
288 |
1 |
157.41 |
2021-04-25 |
| 61. |
If you're willing to go through the battling to get to where... |
157.35 |
1.0304 |
-0.0266 |
339 |
1 |
157.35 |
2021-04-22 |
| 62. |
Abnormally rapid speculative enhancement of prices for exist... |
157.28 |
0.9507 |
0.0606 |
196 |
1 |
157.28 |
2021-04-25 |
| 63. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
157.12 |
1.0375 |
0.0176 |
200 |
1 |
157.12 |
2011-06-25 |
| 64. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
156.56 |
1.0943 |
-0.0568 |
206 |
2 |
145.17 |
2015-03-06 |
| 65. |
I hope you realize I'm holding you personally responsible fo... |
156.31 |
0.9709 |
0.0185 |
217 |
1 |
156.31 |
2019-12-18 |
| 66. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
155.84 |
1.0799 |
-0.0829 |
243 |
1 |
155.84 |
2013-12-24 |
| 67. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
155.59 |
0.9649 |
0.0326 |
193 |
1 |
155.59 |
2013-12-24 |
| 68. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
155.53 |
1.0189 |
-0.0188 |
337 |
1 |
155.53 |
2013-12-24 |
| 69. |
I have to disagree. I make good life choices. Mostly because... |
155.40 |
1.0203 |
-0.0253 |
244 |
1 |
155.40 |
2021-04-26 |
| 70. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
155.35 |
0.9865 |
0.0106 |
276 |
1 |
155.35 |
2011-06-25 |
| 71. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
154.99 |
0.9780 |
0.0163 |
337 |
1 |
154.99 |
2011-06-16 |
| 72. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
154.83 |
1.0574 |
-0.0345 |
205 |
1 |
154.83 |
2013-12-24 |
| 73. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
154.47 |
0.9691 |
0.0217 |
223 |
1 |
154.47 |
2010-12-14 |
| 74. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
154.40 |
1.0787 |
-0.0889 |
237 |
1 |
154.40 |
2011-11-05 |
| 75. |
Maybe I will never be all the things that I wanna be. Now is... |
154.26 |
1.1051 |
-0.1216 |
177 |
1 |
154.26 |
2019-12-18 |
| 76. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
154.01 |
1.0343 |
-0.0076 |
242 |
1 |
154.01 |
2013-12-24 |
| 77. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
153.89 |
0.9213 |
0.0666 |
295 |
1 |
153.89 |
2013-12-26 |
| 78. |
We climbed, he first and I behind, until through a small rou... |
153.86 |
1.0737 |
-0.0871 |
169 |
1 |
153.86 |
2019-12-18 |
| 79. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
153.83 |
1.0496 |
-0.0638 |
314 |
1 |
153.83 |
2013-12-26 |
| 80. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
153.76 |
1.0183 |
-0.0353 |
191 |
2 |
151.28 |
2013-12-26 |
| 81. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
153.66 |
1.0254 |
0.0033 |
217 |
1 |
153.66 |
2015-03-06 |
| 82. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
153.60 |
1.0797 |
-0.0984 |
210 |
1 |
153.60 |
2013-12-24 |
| 83. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
153.57 |
0.9786 |
0.0057 |
235 |
2 |
147.34 |
2013-12-24 |
| 84. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
153.10 |
1.0088 |
0.0096 |
396 |
2 |
143.49 |
2011-04-11 |
| 85. |
Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell bel... |
152.95 |
1.0294 |
-0.0529 |
270 |
1 |
152.95 |
2019-12-18 |
| 86. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
152.94 |
1.0531 |
-0.0353 |
272 |
1 |
152.94 |
2013-12-26 |
| 87. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
152.45 |
0.9894 |
-0.0089 |
323 |
1 |
152.45 |
2013-12-24 |
| 88. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
152.38 |
0.9567 |
0.0626 |
184 |
1 |
152.38 |
2010-12-14 |
| 89. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
152.09 |
0.9884 |
-0.0145 |
233 |
1 |
152.09 |
2016-02-29 |
| 90. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
152.06 |
1.0201 |
-0.0444 |
303 |
1 |
152.06 |
2013-12-24 |
| 91. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
151.40 |
0.9881 |
0.0203 |
424 |
1 |
151.40 |
2013-04-25 |
| 92. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
150.42 |
1.0677 |
-0.0727 |
284 |
1 |
150.42 |
2016-02-29 |
| 93. |
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality... |
150.11 |
1.0376 |
-0.0735 |
228 |
1 |
150.11 |
2019-12-18 |
| 94. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
149.71 |
1.0263 |
-0.0666 |
267 |
1 |
149.71 |
2010-12-14 |
| 95. |
Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside yo... |
149.65 |
0.9387 |
0.0106 |
485 |
1 |
149.65 |
2019-12-18 |
| 96. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
148.98 |
0.9339 |
0.0200 |
310 |
1 |
148.98 |
2011-11-04 |
| 97. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
148.79 |
0.9064 |
0.0546 |
399 |
1 |
148.79 |
2010-06-02 |
| 98. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
148.44 |
1.0060 |
-0.0578 |
171 |
1 |
148.44 |
2010-06-02 |
| 99. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
148.16 |
0.9871 |
-0.0137 |
227 |
1 |
148.16 |
2013-12-26 |
| 100. |
And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream.... |
148.08 |
1.0794 |
-0.1423 |
227 |
1 |
148.08 |
2021-04-23 |
| 101. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
147.81 |
0.9710 |
-0.0283 |
173 |
1 |
147.81 |
2013-04-25 |
| 102. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
147.63 |
0.9665 |
0.0280 |
326 |
1 |
147.63 |
2011-01-14 |
| 103. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
147.51 |
0.9578 |
-0.0131 |
281 |
1 |
147.51 |
2011-06-25 |
| 104. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
147.46 |
1.0211 |
-0.0441 |
213 |
1 |
147.46 |
2016-02-29 |
| 105. |
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingl... |
146.88 |
0.9178 |
0.0147 |
380 |
1 |
146.88 |
2018-01-02 |
| 106. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
146.18 |
0.9841 |
-0.0446 |
334 |
1 |
146.18 |
2010-05-30 |
| 107. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
145.89 |
1.0669 |
-0.0986 |
286 |
1 |
145.89 |
2013-12-24 |
| 108. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
145.72 |
0.8541 |
0.0818 |
260 |
1 |
145.72 |
2015-03-06 |
| 109. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
145.63 |
1.0725 |
-0.1111 |
233 |
1 |
145.63 |
2010-12-14 |
| 110. |
And that's what this whole thing is about. Calling home. Ins... |
144.08 |
0.9565 |
-0.0264 |
340 |
1 |
144.08 |
2021-04-22 |
| 111. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
144.02 |
0.9763 |
-0.0533 |
289 |
1 |
144.02 |
2013-12-24 |
| 112. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
143.51 |
0.9756 |
-0.0571 |
229 |
1 |
143.51 |
2011-06-16 |
| 113. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
142.63 |
0.8722 |
0.0438 |
285 |
1 |
142.63 |
2011-06-16 |
| 114. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
142.56 |
1.0053 |
-0.0929 |
232 |
1 |
142.56 |
2011-11-04 |
| 115. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
141.37 |
0.9279 |
-0.0182 |
317 |
1 |
141.37 |
2010-06-02 |
| 116. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
141.13 |
1.0555 |
-0.1502 |
363 |
1 |
141.13 |
2013-12-24 |
| 117. |
I know what you think it means, sonny. To me, it's just a ma... |
141.10 |
0.9813 |
-0.0770 |
225 |
1 |
141.10 |
2021-04-22 |
| 118. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
140.83 |
0.9234 |
-0.0181 |
346 |
1 |
140.83 |
2013-12-24 |
| 119. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
140.66 |
1.0033 |
-0.1064 |
189 |
1 |
140.66 |
2013-12-26 |
| 120. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
140.36 |
0.9583 |
-0.0175 |
341 |
1 |
140.36 |
2010-06-02 |
| 121. |
The Jian, also known as "the bird that shares wings," only p... |
140.13 |
0.9000 |
-0.0199 |
288 |
1 |
140.13 |
2019-12-18 |
| 122. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
140.05 |
1.0398 |
-0.1500 |
110 |
1 |
140.05 |
2011-11-06 |
| 123. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
139.42 |
0.8553 |
0.0347 |
174 |
1 |
139.42 |
2015-03-06 |
| 124. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
139.20 |
0.9601 |
-0.0652 |
308 |
1 |
139.20 |
2011-06-25 |
| 125. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
138.08 |
0.9087 |
-0.0171 |
393 |
1 |
138.08 |
2010-06-02 |
| 126. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
136.45 |
0.9851 |
-0.1103 |
317 |
1 |
136.45 |
2010-06-02 |
| 127. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
136.02 |
0.9164 |
-0.0423 |
305 |
1 |
136.02 |
2011-01-14 |
| 128. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
134.83 |
0.7876 |
0.0787 |
316 |
1 |
134.83 |
2010-12-14 |
| 129. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
134.81 |
0.9303 |
-0.0728 |
176 |
1 |
134.81 |
2015-03-06 |
| 130. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
133.20 |
0.9965 |
-0.1457 |
168 |
1 |
133.20 |
2013-12-26 |
| 131. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
130.13 |
1.0109 |
-0.1777 |
276 |
1 |
130.13 |
2010-05-30 |
| 132. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
130.00 |
0.9670 |
-0.0943 |
307 |
1 |
130.00 |
2010-05-30 |
| 133. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
129.00 |
1.0141 |
-0.1552 |
304 |
1 |
129.00 |
2010-05-30 |
| 134. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
126.75 |
0.8956 |
-0.0833 |
217 |
1 |
126.75 |
2008-09-18 |
| 135. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
123.56 |
1.0788 |
-0.2928 |
171 |
1 |
123.56 |
2011-01-14 |
| 136. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
123.34 |
0.9532 |
-0.1657 |
258 |
1 |
123.34 |
2010-05-30 |
| 137. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
120.96 |
1.0173 |
-0.1998 |
268 |
1 |
120.96 |
2010-05-30 |