| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
129.40 |
1.0445 |
0.1304 |
373 |
1 |
129.40 |
2014-07-11 |
| 2. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
126.85 |
1.0201 |
0.1330 |
303 |
3 |
122.30 |
2013-05-06 |
| 3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
125.53 |
1.0829 |
0.0578 |
288 |
1 |
125.53 |
2013-11-15 |
| 4. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
124.92 |
0.9879 |
0.1491 |
450 |
2 |
118.40 |
2013-05-06 |
| 5. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
124.69 |
0.9740 |
0.1594 |
209 |
1 |
124.69 |
2014-07-11 |
| 6. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
124.64 |
1.0264 |
0.1331 |
422 |
1 |
124.64 |
2013-05-02 |
| 7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
124.39 |
1.0331 |
0.0972 |
234 |
1 |
124.39 |
2013-05-01 |
| 8. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
123.60 |
1.0667 |
0.0832 |
406 |
1 |
123.60 |
2013-05-02 |
| 9. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
123.39 |
1.0615 |
0.0801 |
305 |
1 |
123.39 |
2014-07-11 |
| 10. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
123.13 |
0.9278 |
0.1928 |
295 |
1 |
123.13 |
2013-05-01 |
| 11. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
123.02 |
1.0462 |
0.0710 |
184 |
1 |
123.02 |
2013-11-15 |
| 12. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
122.31 |
1.1323 |
0.0047 |
341 |
1 |
122.31 |
2013-05-02 |
| 13. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
121.21 |
1.0608 |
0.0692 |
258 |
1 |
121.21 |
2013-05-01 |
| 14. |
Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings.... |
120.63 |
1.0427 |
0.0557 |
366 |
1 |
120.63 |
2023-01-26 |
| 15. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
120.59 |
1.0172 |
0.1048 |
341 |
1 |
120.59 |
2013-05-02 |
| 16. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
120.15 |
0.9570 |
0.1355 |
287 |
2 |
114.97 |
2013-05-09 |
| 17. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
120.04 |
0.9811 |
0.1087 |
272 |
1 |
120.04 |
2013-11-15 |
| 18. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
120.00 |
1.0673 |
0.0610 |
230 |
2 |
110.70 |
2013-05-02 |
| 19. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
119.87 |
0.9164 |
0.1734 |
305 |
2 |
116.15 |
2014-07-11 |
| 20. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
119.87 |
1.0167 |
0.0735 |
378 |
1 |
119.87 |
2013-05-02 |
| 21. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
119.70 |
1.0719 |
0.0384 |
360 |
1 |
119.70 |
2024-01-24 |
| 22. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
119.59 |
1.0767 |
0.0091 |
212 |
2 |
115.76 |
2013-05-09 |
| 23. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
119.49 |
1.0340 |
0.0523 |
406 |
3 |
116.95 |
2014-07-11 |
| 24. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
119.42 |
1.0013 |
0.0842 |
273 |
1 |
119.42 |
2013-05-02 |
| 25. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
119.15 |
0.9553 |
0.1293 |
430 |
2 |
110.54 |
2013-05-01 |
| 26. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
119.14 |
1.0042 |
0.1071 |
352 |
1 |
119.14 |
2013-05-01 |
| 27. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
118.80 |
0.9846 |
0.0949 |
281 |
2 |
112.70 |
2016-04-29 |
| 28. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
118.67 |
1.0068 |
0.0717 |
358 |
1 |
118.67 |
2016-09-20 |
| 29. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
118.40 |
1.0487 |
0.0251 |
231 |
1 |
118.40 |
2013-05-06 |
| 30. |
And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't ... |
117.98 |
0.9920 |
0.0808 |
241 |
1 |
117.98 |
2023-01-26 |
| 31. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
117.53 |
1.0337 |
0.0330 |
214 |
2 |
104.18 |
2014-07-11 |
| 32. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
117.45 |
0.9723 |
0.0954 |
364 |
1 |
117.45 |
2013-05-03 |
| 33. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
117.22 |
1.0352 |
0.0308 |
341 |
2 |
114.47 |
2013-05-01 |
| 34. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
117.10 |
1.0389 |
0.0247 |
318 |
1 |
117.10 |
2013-05-02 |
| 35. |
I know you didn't do this. You're a good boy. But I want you... |
116.62 |
1.0412 |
0.0187 |
384 |
1 |
116.62 |
2024-01-24 |
| 36. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
116.49 |
1.0023 |
0.0558 |
211 |
1 |
116.49 |
2013-05-01 |
| 37. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
116.35 |
1.0261 |
0.0566 |
410 |
1 |
116.35 |
2013-11-15 |
| 38. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
115.80 |
1.0787 |
-0.0275 |
237 |
1 |
115.80 |
2013-05-01 |
| 39. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
115.30 |
1.0444 |
0.0023 |
197 |
2 |
109.96 |
2014-07-11 |
| 40. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
114.92 |
1.0090 |
0.0708 |
282 |
1 |
114.92 |
2014-07-11 |
| 41. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
114.89 |
1.0711 |
-0.0294 |
213 |
1 |
114.89 |
2014-07-11 |
| 42. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
114.72 |
1.0740 |
-0.0002 |
264 |
2 |
111.87 |
2013-05-09 |
| 43. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
114.09 |
0.9814 |
0.0872 |
364 |
1 |
114.09 |
2013-05-01 |
| 44. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
113.82 |
0.9275 |
0.1063 |
211 |
1 |
113.82 |
2013-05-01 |
| 45. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
113.69 |
0.9986 |
0.0338 |
283 |
1 |
113.69 |
2013-11-15 |
| 46. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
113.38 |
0.9430 |
0.0865 |
211 |
2 |
106.63 |
2013-11-15 |
| 47. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
112.83 |
1.0088 |
0.0445 |
396 |
1 |
112.83 |
2013-05-02 |
| 48. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
112.81 |
0.9905 |
0.0350 |
377 |
1 |
112.81 |
2013-11-15 |
| 49. |
All around us there are powers. There are animals like the w... |
112.77 |
1.0615 |
-0.0367 |
419 |
1 |
112.77 |
2024-01-24 |
| 50. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
112.76 |
0.9468 |
0.0774 |
276 |
2 |
112.11 |
2013-05-02 |
| 51. |
You know, sweetheart, if there's one thing I've learned, it'... |
111.99 |
1.0002 |
0.0172 |
161 |
1 |
111.99 |
2016-04-29 |
| 52. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
111.91 |
0.9831 |
0.0349 |
469 |
1 |
111.91 |
2013-05-02 |
| 53. |
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anyt... |
111.79 |
0.9721 |
0.0462 |
306 |
1 |
111.79 |
2022-06-03 |
| 54. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
111.73 |
1.0165 |
-0.0017 |
392 |
1 |
111.73 |
2016-06-01 |
| 55. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
111.70 |
1.0120 |
0.0026 |
290 |
1 |
111.70 |
2013-05-06 |
| 56. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
111.65 |
0.9792 |
0.0667 |
265 |
1 |
111.65 |
2013-05-02 |
| 57. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
111.27 |
0.9340 |
0.0791 |
296 |
1 |
111.27 |
2013-05-01 |
| 58. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
110.82 |
1.0270 |
0.0095 |
255 |
1 |
110.82 |
2013-05-01 |
| 59. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
110.67 |
1.0679 |
-0.0404 |
177 |
1 |
110.67 |
2013-11-15 |
| 60. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
110.54 |
1.0083 |
0.0326 |
273 |
1 |
110.54 |
2013-05-02 |
| 61. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
110.53 |
0.9769 |
0.0267 |
263 |
1 |
110.53 |
2013-05-01 |
| 62. |
There is more than one kind of freedom: freedom to and freed... |
110.42 |
1.0024 |
0.0014 |
169 |
1 |
110.42 |
2016-11-03 |
| 63. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
110.40 |
1.0197 |
-0.0176 |
226 |
1 |
110.40 |
2013-11-15 |
| 64. |
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you... |
110.20 |
1.0057 |
-0.0017 |
458 |
1 |
110.20 |
2016-06-01 |
| 65. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
109.94 |
0.9910 |
0.0074 |
295 |
1 |
109.94 |
2013-05-02 |
| 66. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
109.89 |
0.8916 |
0.1063 |
216 |
1 |
109.89 |
2013-05-06 |
| 67. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
109.88 |
0.9905 |
0.0299 |
337 |
1 |
109.88 |
2013-05-01 |
| 68. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
109.57 |
0.9852 |
0.0098 |
264 |
1 |
109.57 |
2013-05-02 |
| 69. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
109.51 |
0.9485 |
0.0453 |
291 |
1 |
109.51 |
2015-08-28 |
| 70. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
109.44 |
0.9965 |
-0.0027 |
310 |
1 |
109.44 |
2014-07-11 |
| 71. |
Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you,... |
109.19 |
0.9499 |
0.0415 |
100 |
1 |
109.19 |
2016-09-20 |
| 72. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
108.61 |
0.9045 |
0.0824 |
235 |
1 |
108.61 |
2013-05-01 |
| 73. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
108.54 |
1.0125 |
0.0000 |
413 |
1 |
108.54 |
2013-05-06 |
| 74. |
I can and do say that nothing human beings have ever before ... |
108.54 |
1.0296 |
-0.0417 |
306 |
1 |
108.54 |
2016-04-29 |
| 75. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
108.36 |
0.9780 |
0.0060 |
337 |
3 |
106.28 |
2016-04-29 |
| 76. |
There was once a fish that lived in a pond. One day, he met ... |
108.33 |
0.9993 |
-0.0149 |
345 |
1 |
108.33 |
2023-01-26 |
| 77. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
108.22 |
0.9148 |
0.0690 |
317 |
1 |
108.22 |
2013-05-02 |
| 78. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
107.78 |
1.0252 |
-0.0477 |
176 |
1 |
107.78 |
2013-05-06 |
| 79. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
107.33 |
0.9786 |
-0.0037 |
235 |
2 |
96.55 |
2014-07-11 |
| 80. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
105.89 |
0.8753 |
0.0889 |
427 |
1 |
105.89 |
2013-05-01 |
| 81. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
105.82 |
0.9087 |
0.0542 |
393 |
1 |
105.82 |
2014-07-11 |
| 82. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
105.56 |
0.9649 |
-0.0060 |
193 |
1 |
105.56 |
2013-05-01 |
| 83. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
105.53 |
0.9289 |
0.0293 |
204 |
1 |
105.53 |
2013-05-01 |
| 84. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
105.44 |
0.9865 |
-0.0285 |
276 |
1 |
105.44 |
2013-05-01 |
| 85. |
I could tell you I was fragile. I could tell you I was weak.... |
104.96 |
0.9741 |
-0.0183 |
410 |
1 |
104.96 |
2020-10-02 |
| 86. |
Every pause in our talk was filled by the sound of deep, lou... |
104.34 |
0.9746 |
-0.0232 |
552 |
1 |
104.34 |
2019-03-26 |
| 87. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
104.26 |
0.9665 |
0.0196 |
326 |
1 |
104.26 |
2013-05-02 |
| 88. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
104.14 |
1.0545 |
-0.0827 |
416 |
1 |
104.14 |
2013-05-06 |
| 89. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
103.70 |
1.0214 |
-0.0805 |
166 |
1 |
103.70 |
2013-05-01 |
| 90. |
I won't say another word - not one. I know I talk too much, ... |
103.44 |
1.0415 |
-0.1009 |
227 |
1 |
103.44 |
2022-06-03 |
| 91. |
When it was announced that the Library contained all books, ... |
103.03 |
0.9410 |
-0.0019 |
286 |
1 |
103.03 |
2020-10-02 |
| 92. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
102.95 |
0.9485 |
-0.0126 |
236 |
1 |
102.95 |
2013-05-01 |
| 93. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
102.69 |
0.9670 |
-0.0012 |
307 |
1 |
102.69 |
2013-11-15 |
| 94. |
Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover th... |
101.46 |
0.9737 |
-0.0495 |
384 |
1 |
101.46 |
2020-10-02 |
| 95. |
But I had a point here. A lesson, if you will. There are oth... |
101.36 |
1.0168 |
-0.0953 |
335 |
1 |
101.36 |
2019-03-26 |
| 96. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
101.33 |
1.0412 |
-0.1238 |
225 |
1 |
101.33 |
2013-05-02 |
| 97. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
101.24 |
0.9212 |
-0.0013 |
323 |
1 |
101.24 |
2013-05-06 |
| 98. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
100.36 |
0.9776 |
-0.0661 |
308 |
1 |
100.36 |
2013-11-15 |
| 99. |
Do you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do then I should wa... |
100.00 |
0.9611 |
-0.0522 |
312 |
1 |
100.00 |
2019-03-26 |
| 100. |
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it ... |
99.72 |
1.0026 |
-0.0971 |
170 |
1 |
99.72 |
2019-03-26 |
| 101. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
99.57 |
1.0073 |
-0.1023 |
369 |
1 |
99.57 |
2016-09-20 |
| 102. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
99.23 |
0.9426 |
-0.0405 |
317 |
1 |
99.23 |
2013-05-02 |
| 103. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
98.84 |
1.0131 |
-0.1160 |
225 |
1 |
98.84 |
2013-05-03 |
| 104. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
98.76 |
1.0099 |
-0.1147 |
207 |
1 |
98.76 |
2014-07-11 |
| 105. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
98.47 |
0.9293 |
-0.0354 |
355 |
1 |
98.47 |
2013-05-02 |
| 106. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
98.22 |
1.0574 |
-0.1430 |
205 |
1 |
98.22 |
2013-05-01 |
| 107. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
98.02 |
1.0604 |
-0.1426 |
260 |
1 |
98.02 |
2014-07-11 |
| 108. |
We're knights of the Round Table, we dance whene'er we're ab... |
97.85 |
0.8811 |
0.0102 |
187 |
1 |
97.85 |
2020-10-02 |
| 109. |
Topology is generally considered to be one of the three linc... |
94.73 |
0.9023 |
-0.0380 |
396 |
1 |
94.73 |
2016-09-20 |
| 110. |
Welcome to Havana. Smoking Cubanos with Castro in cabanas. V... |
94.20 |
0.8152 |
0.0440 |
271 |
1 |
94.20 |
2019-03-26 |
| 111. |
There is more to color than a swatch in a book, or a pull do... |
93.71 |
0.9544 |
-0.1021 |
260 |
1 |
93.71 |
2024-01-24 |
| 112. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
93.22 |
0.9557 |
-0.1084 |
331 |
1 |
93.22 |
2013-05-01 |
| 113. |
I don't know whether it's necessary or not; but this I do kn... |
93.14 |
0.9308 |
-0.0818 |
142 |
1 |
93.14 |
2016-09-20 |
| 114. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
92.91 |
0.9871 |
-0.1102 |
209 |
1 |
92.91 |
2016-09-20 |
| 115. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
92.16 |
0.9699 |
-0.1337 |
269 |
1 |
92.16 |
2013-05-03 |
| 116. |
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficu... |
90.75 |
0.9872 |
-0.1613 |
342 |
1 |
90.75 |
2019-03-26 |
| 117. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
87.97 |
0.8105 |
-0.0127 |
204 |
2 |
86.04 |
2016-04-29 |
| 118. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
82.95 |
1.0796 |
-0.3291 |
129 |
1 |
82.95 |
2013-05-01 |
| 119. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
64.30 |
0.8852 |
-0.3033 |
201 |
1 |
64.30 |
2013-05-01 |