| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and t... |
78.08 |
1.1293 |
0.1578 |
136 |
1 |
78.08 |
2017-10-22 |
| 2. |
Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing... |
74.34 |
0.9557 |
0.2268 |
125 |
1 |
74.34 |
2017-10-22 |
| 3. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
70.80 |
1.0679 |
0.1203 |
177 |
1 |
70.80 |
2012-11-15 |
| 4. |
Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, fa... |
70.67 |
0.9014 |
0.2149 |
122 |
1 |
70.67 |
2019-10-30 |
| 5. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
69.93 |
1.0132 |
0.1317 |
143 |
1 |
69.93 |
2011-08-30 |
| 6. |
Perhaps it was an old flame he was in mourning for from the ... |
69.13 |
1.0474 |
0.0997 |
170 |
1 |
69.13 |
2016-12-15 |
| 7. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
69.09 |
1.0711 |
0.0634 |
213 |
1 |
69.09 |
2013-09-13 |
| 8. |
If you think that you are going to love something, give it a... |
69.02 |
1.1227 |
0.0141 |
147 |
1 |
69.02 |
2015-12-13 |
| 9. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
68.92 |
1.0885 |
0.0833 |
341 |
1 |
68.92 |
2011-08-30 |
| 10. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
68.18 |
1.0328 |
0.1304 |
356 |
1 |
68.18 |
2011-08-30 |
| 11. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
67.96 |
1.0125 |
0.1058 |
224 |
1 |
67.96 |
2017-10-22 |
| 12. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
67.18 |
1.0797 |
0.0227 |
210 |
1 |
67.18 |
2011-08-29 |
| 13. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
67.05 |
1.0907 |
0.0172 |
303 |
1 |
67.05 |
2011-11-15 |
| 14. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
66.53 |
1.0944 |
0.0472 |
308 |
1 |
66.53 |
2011-11-15 |
| 15. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
66.08 |
0.9578 |
0.1317 |
281 |
1 |
66.08 |
2011-08-30 |
| 16. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
65.81 |
0.8791 |
0.2051 |
190 |
1 |
65.81 |
2016-09-08 |
| 17. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
65.30 |
1.0533 |
0.0499 |
257 |
1 |
65.30 |
2011-11-15 |
| 18. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
65.20 |
1.0390 |
0.0320 |
205 |
1 |
65.20 |
2011-08-29 |
| 19. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
65.10 |
0.9756 |
0.0962 |
229 |
2 |
60.58 |
2011-11-15 |
| 20. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
64.86 |
1.0340 |
0.0404 |
406 |
1 |
64.86 |
2013-09-03 |
| 21. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
64.65 |
0.9946 |
0.0710 |
246 |
1 |
64.65 |
2017-10-29 |
| 22. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
64.60 |
0.9303 |
0.1276 |
176 |
1 |
64.60 |
2011-08-30 |
| 23. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
64.30 |
1.0531 |
0.0449 |
272 |
2 |
60.87 |
2011-11-15 |
| 24. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
64.29 |
0.9904 |
0.1097 |
203 |
1 |
64.29 |
2011-11-15 |
| 25. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
64.16 |
1.0545 |
0.0438 |
416 |
1 |
64.16 |
2011-08-29 |
| 26. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
64.05 |
1.0529 |
0.0027 |
351 |
1 |
64.05 |
2011-11-15 |
| 27. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
64.00 |
1.0063 |
0.0487 |
371 |
1 |
64.00 |
2011-08-30 |
| 28. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
63.58 |
1.0767 |
-0.0312 |
212 |
1 |
63.58 |
2011-08-30 |
| 29. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
63.52 |
1.0613 |
-0.0137 |
266 |
1 |
63.52 |
2011-08-29 |
| 30. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
63.43 |
0.9682 |
0.0756 |
143 |
2 |
63.16 |
2012-11-05 |
| 31. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
63.39 |
1.0972 |
-0.0230 |
251 |
1 |
63.39 |
2011-08-30 |
| 32. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
63.35 |
0.9213 |
0.1233 |
295 |
1 |
63.35 |
2011-08-29 |
| 33. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
63.32 |
1.0441 |
0.0006 |
252 |
1 |
63.32 |
2011-11-15 |
| 34. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
62.88 |
1.0099 |
0.0230 |
207 |
1 |
62.88 |
2011-08-30 |
| 35. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
62.84 |
1.0613 |
-0.0203 |
456 |
1 |
62.84 |
2011-08-29 |
| 36. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
62.82 |
0.9865 |
0.0498 |
276 |
1 |
62.82 |
2016-12-15 |
| 37. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
62.39 |
0.9675 |
0.0698 |
383 |
1 |
62.39 |
2011-08-30 |
| 38. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
62.31 |
1.0062 |
0.0203 |
288 |
1 |
62.31 |
2011-11-15 |
| 39. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
62.28 |
1.0387 |
0.0195 |
239 |
1 |
62.28 |
2015-12-13 |
| 40. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
62.22 |
0.9833 |
0.0434 |
355 |
1 |
62.22 |
2011-11-15 |
| 41. |
As much money and life as you could want! The two things mos... |
62.03 |
1.0438 |
-0.0186 |
198 |
1 |
62.03 |
2015-12-13 |
| 42. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
61.26 |
0.9439 |
0.0733 |
476 |
1 |
61.26 |
2017-10-29 |
| 43. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
60.76 |
0.9786 |
0.0216 |
235 |
1 |
60.76 |
2011-08-30 |
| 44. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
60.54 |
0.9514 |
0.0459 |
237 |
1 |
60.54 |
2011-08-30 |
| 45. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
60.39 |
1.0534 |
-0.0563 |
357 |
1 |
60.39 |
2011-11-15 |
| 46. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
60.39 |
0.9593 |
0.0400 |
398 |
1 |
60.39 |
2012-11-05 |
| 47. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
60.33 |
1.0257 |
-0.0257 |
401 |
1 |
60.33 |
2012-11-15 |
| 48. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
60.21 |
0.9884 |
0.0027 |
233 |
1 |
60.21 |
2011-11-15 |
| 49. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
60.20 |
0.9763 |
0.0144 |
289 |
1 |
60.20 |
2011-08-30 |
| 50. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
60.13 |
0.9430 |
0.0438 |
227 |
1 |
60.13 |
2011-08-30 |
| 51. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
59.88 |
1.0232 |
0.0087 |
350 |
1 |
59.88 |
2011-08-31 |
| 52. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
59.69 |
1.0943 |
-0.0788 |
206 |
1 |
59.69 |
2012-11-05 |
| 53. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
59.68 |
1.0013 |
-0.0195 |
273 |
1 |
59.68 |
2011-11-15 |
| 54. |
Let me tell you what's gonna happen, Officer Grimly. I'm goi... |
59.24 |
1.0550 |
-0.0705 |
371 |
1 |
59.24 |
2017-10-29 |
| 55. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
58.70 |
1.0352 |
-0.0655 |
341 |
1 |
58.70 |
2011-08-29 |
| 56. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
58.36 |
0.9572 |
0.0465 |
376 |
2 |
56.77 |
2012-11-15 |
| 57. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
58.29 |
0.8971 |
0.0676 |
266 |
1 |
58.29 |
2011-11-15 |
| 58. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
58.02 |
0.9871 |
-0.0094 |
227 |
1 |
58.02 |
2011-11-15 |
| 59. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
57.84 |
0.8933 |
0.0652 |
363 |
1 |
57.84 |
2011-08-31 |
| 60. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
57.73 |
0.9687 |
-0.0137 |
371 |
1 |
57.73 |
2011-08-29 |
| 61. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
57.69 |
0.9461 |
-0.0007 |
193 |
1 |
57.69 |
2017-10-22 |
| 62. |
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies... |
57.69 |
0.8577 |
0.0662 |
269 |
1 |
57.69 |
2017-10-22 |
| 63. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
57.32 |
0.9936 |
-0.0301 |
227 |
1 |
57.32 |
2011-08-30 |
| 64. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
57.31 |
1.0349 |
-0.0927 |
234 |
1 |
57.31 |
2011-08-30 |
| 65. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
56.95 |
0.9485 |
-0.0096 |
236 |
1 |
56.95 |
2014-10-11 |
| 66. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
56.90 |
1.0288 |
-0.0601 |
300 |
1 |
56.90 |
2011-08-30 |
| 67. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
56.80 |
0.9646 |
-0.0308 |
264 |
1 |
56.80 |
2011-08-29 |
| 68. |
Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand before you now because I never... |
56.45 |
0.9501 |
-0.0511 |
244 |
1 |
56.45 |
2017-10-22 |
| 69. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
56.41 |
0.9649 |
-0.0376 |
193 |
1 |
56.41 |
2011-11-15 |
| 70. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
55.71 |
1.0297 |
-0.1146 |
249 |
1 |
55.71 |
2011-12-16 |
| 71. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
55.71 |
1.0169 |
-0.0618 |
346 |
1 |
55.71 |
2011-11-15 |
| 72. |
Just outside the theater's fence, Pemulis is bug-eyed with f... |
55.41 |
0.8708 |
0.0247 |
328 |
1 |
55.41 |
2017-10-22 |
| 73. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
55.23 |
1.0172 |
-0.0737 |
341 |
1 |
55.23 |
2011-08-30 |
| 74. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
55.13 |
0.9907 |
-0.0854 |
211 |
1 |
55.13 |
2011-12-16 |
| 75. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
55.02 |
0.9176 |
0.0211 |
267 |
1 |
55.02 |
2011-08-31 |
| 76. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
54.66 |
0.8947 |
0.0095 |
366 |
1 |
54.66 |
2013-09-13 |
| 77. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
54.42 |
0.9109 |
-0.0129 |
401 |
1 |
54.42 |
2011-11-15 |
| 78. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
54.40 |
0.9776 |
-0.0826 |
308 |
1 |
54.40 |
2011-08-29 |
| 79. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
54.20 |
0.9084 |
-0.0134 |
404 |
1 |
54.20 |
2011-08-30 |
| 80. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
53.81 |
0.9965 |
-0.1164 |
168 |
1 |
53.81 |
2011-11-15 |
| 81. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
52.98 |
0.9485 |
-0.0750 |
291 |
1 |
52.98 |
2011-09-14 |
| 82. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
52.83 |
1.0197 |
-0.1541 |
226 |
1 |
52.83 |
2011-08-29 |
| 83. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
52.17 |
0.8670 |
-0.0045 |
318 |
1 |
52.17 |
2011-08-29 |
| 84. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
50.96 |
0.9635 |
-0.1204 |
389 |
1 |
50.96 |
2011-11-15 |
| 85. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
50.44 |
1.0073 |
-0.1706 |
369 |
1 |
50.44 |
2011-08-29 |
| 86. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
49.81 |
0.9814 |
-0.1238 |
364 |
1 |
49.81 |
2011-11-15 |
| 87. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
49.20 |
0.9097 |
-0.0599 |
464 |
1 |
49.20 |
2011-11-15 |
| 88. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
49.06 |
0.8919 |
-0.0877 |
205 |
1 |
49.06 |
2011-08-30 |
| 89. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
49.05 |
0.9540 |
-0.1507 |
285 |
1 |
49.05 |
2011-08-29 |
| 90. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
48.50 |
0.9769 |
-0.1826 |
263 |
1 |
48.50 |
2011-08-29 |
| 91. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
44.98 |
0.9567 |
-0.1769 |
184 |
1 |
44.98 |
2011-11-15 |
| 92. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
43.55 |
0.9908 |
-0.2312 |
342 |
1 |
43.55 |
2011-08-29 |
| 93. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
31.26 |
1.0213 |
-0.5159 |
240 |
1 |
31.26 |
2016-09-08 |