| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
124.38 |
1.0073 |
0.4835 |
369 |
1 |
124.38 |
2012-04-09 |
| 2. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
112.78 |
1.0829 |
0.2682 |
288 |
1 |
112.78 |
2014-01-27 |
| 3. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
112.29 |
1.0025 |
0.3429 |
256 |
1 |
112.29 |
2014-01-27 |
| 4. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
110.88 |
1.0391 |
0.2895 |
358 |
1 |
110.88 |
2015-06-02 |
| 5. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
104.78 |
1.0154 |
0.2577 |
351 |
1 |
104.78 |
2012-04-09 |
| 6. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
104.67 |
1.0125 |
0.2413 |
224 |
1 |
104.67 |
2014-01-27 |
| 7. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
104.24 |
1.0053 |
0.2433 |
232 |
2 |
103.27 |
2014-01-27 |
| 8. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
103.68 |
1.0334 |
0.2078 |
131 |
1 |
103.68 |
2012-04-10 |
| 9. |
Every breath you take and every move you make, every bond yo... |
102.38 |
1.0545 |
0.1729 |
217 |
1 |
102.38 |
2022-09-16 |
| 10. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
101.84 |
1.0189 |
0.2012 |
337 |
2 |
96.53 |
2016-12-28 |
| 11. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
101.49 |
1.0441 |
0.1714 |
252 |
1 |
101.49 |
2014-01-27 |
| 12. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
101.27 |
0.9342 |
0.2793 |
434 |
1 |
101.27 |
2014-01-27 |
| 13. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
99.61 |
0.9907 |
0.2023 |
211 |
1 |
99.61 |
2014-01-27 |
| 14. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
99.41 |
1.0328 |
0.1685 |
356 |
1 |
99.41 |
2015-02-08 |
| 15. |
Never give up on everything if one thing is too hard. Never ... |
99.32 |
1.0751 |
0.1163 |
323 |
1 |
99.32 |
2015-06-02 |
| 16. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
99.24 |
0.9852 |
0.2036 |
264 |
2 |
86.67 |
2014-01-27 |
| 17. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
99.19 |
1.0214 |
0.1665 |
269 |
1 |
99.19 |
2014-01-27 |
| 18. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
98.94 |
1.0454 |
0.1412 |
255 |
1 |
98.94 |
2014-01-27 |
| 19. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
98.87 |
1.0711 |
0.1127 |
213 |
2 |
98.01 |
2016-12-28 |
| 20. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
98.85 |
0.9941 |
0.1897 |
217 |
1 |
98.85 |
2014-01-27 |
| 21. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
98.41 |
0.9966 |
0.1823 |
259 |
1 |
98.41 |
2014-01-27 |
| 22. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
97.31 |
1.1014 |
0.0796 |
273 |
2 |
84.66 |
2025-01-25 |
| 23. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
96.64 |
0.8916 |
0.2659 |
216 |
1 |
96.64 |
2014-01-27 |
| 24. |
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has... |
96.17 |
1.0534 |
0.0999 |
177 |
1 |
96.17 |
2017-01-01 |
| 25. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
96.04 |
0.8852 |
0.2653 |
201 |
1 |
96.04 |
2014-01-27 |
| 26. |
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose gove... |
95.79 |
1.0473 |
0.1021 |
331 |
1 |
95.79 |
2022-09-16 |
| 27. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
95.72 |
1.0284 |
0.1352 |
282 |
1 |
95.72 |
2014-01-27 |
| 28. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
94.76 |
1.0767 |
0.0580 |
212 |
1 |
94.76 |
2014-01-27 |
| 29. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
93.36 |
1.0379 |
0.0957 |
245 |
1 |
93.36 |
2017-01-01 |
| 30. |
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an esse... |
92.73 |
1.0218 |
0.0896 |
174 |
1 |
92.73 |
2016-12-28 |
| 31. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
92.17 |
0.9622 |
0.1419 |
392 |
1 |
92.17 |
2016-12-28 |
| 32. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
91.43 |
0.9756 |
0.1191 |
229 |
1 |
91.43 |
2014-01-27 |
| 33. |
"Without pain, how could we know joy?" This is an old argume... |
90.73 |
0.9309 |
0.1575 |
285 |
1 |
90.73 |
2016-12-28 |
| 34. |
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, ... |
90.73 |
1.0635 |
0.0245 |
359 |
1 |
90.73 |
2016-12-29 |
| 35. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
90.50 |
1.0574 |
0.0375 |
205 |
1 |
90.50 |
2014-01-27 |
| 36. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
90.18 |
1.0203 |
0.0691 |
400 |
1 |
90.18 |
2014-01-27 |
| 37. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
90.09 |
1.0596 |
0.0190 |
239 |
1 |
90.09 |
2014-01-27 |
| 38. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
90.06 |
0.9865 |
0.0920 |
276 |
1 |
90.06 |
2014-01-27 |
| 39. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
89.95 |
1.1296 |
-0.0400 |
252 |
1 |
89.95 |
2014-01-27 |
| 40. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
89.87 |
0.8775 |
0.2009 |
443 |
1 |
89.87 |
2014-01-27 |
| 41. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
89.74 |
0.9672 |
0.1079 |
396 |
1 |
89.74 |
2014-01-27 |
| 42. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
89.61 |
0.9636 |
0.1093 |
254 |
1 |
89.61 |
2014-01-27 |
| 43. |
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be ... |
88.33 |
1.0233 |
0.0354 |
351 |
1 |
88.33 |
2017-01-01 |
| 44. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
88.30 |
0.9739 |
0.0950 |
412 |
1 |
88.30 |
2016-12-29 |
| 45. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
88.11 |
1.0696 |
-0.0151 |
226 |
1 |
88.11 |
2014-01-27 |
| 46. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
88.01 |
1.0545 |
0.0109 |
416 |
1 |
88.01 |
2014-01-27 |
| 47. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
88.00 |
1.0095 |
0.0441 |
316 |
1 |
88.00 |
2014-01-27 |
| 48. |
You found something else. In that cell you found something t... |
87.70 |
1.0357 |
0.0151 |
267 |
1 |
87.70 |
2016-12-28 |
| 49. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
87.69 |
1.0214 |
0.0459 |
281 |
1 |
87.69 |
2016-12-28 |
| 50. |
Finally, there are those languages, such as Turkish, Finnish... |
86.36 |
0.9008 |
0.1354 |
353 |
1 |
86.36 |
2015-06-11 |
| 51. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
86.12 |
1.0296 |
0.0016 |
437 |
2 |
77.34 |
2015-02-08 |
| 52. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
85.64 |
0.9640 |
0.0697 |
334 |
1 |
85.64 |
2014-01-27 |
| 53. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
85.59 |
1.0150 |
0.0277 |
325 |
2 |
84.27 |
2016-12-31 |
| 54. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
85.54 |
1.0679 |
-0.0324 |
177 |
2 |
83.17 |
2016-12-28 |
| 55. |
What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love?... |
84.86 |
1.0373 |
-0.0206 |
170 |
1 |
84.86 |
2016-12-31 |
| 56. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
84.56 |
1.0151 |
-0.0029 |
152 |
2 |
75.14 |
2017-01-01 |
| 57. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
84.35 |
0.9485 |
0.0609 |
291 |
1 |
84.35 |
2014-01-27 |
| 58. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
84.17 |
1.0669 |
-0.0461 |
286 |
1 |
84.17 |
2016-12-28 |
| 59. |
There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man wil... |
83.86 |
0.9861 |
0.0198 |
156 |
1 |
83.86 |
2016-12-28 |
| 60. |
Her eyes, like windows, trickle in rain upon the pain gettin... |
83.58 |
1.0446 |
-0.0429 |
217 |
1 |
83.58 |
2022-09-16 |
| 61. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
83.04 |
1.0251 |
-0.0314 |
261 |
1 |
83.04 |
2014-01-27 |
| 62. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
82.83 |
0.9866 |
0.0052 |
218 |
1 |
82.83 |
2016-12-29 |
| 63. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
82.79 |
0.9128 |
0.0939 |
369 |
1 |
82.79 |
2014-01-27 |
| 64. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
82.39 |
0.9572 |
0.0439 |
376 |
2 |
80.06 |
2014-01-27 |
| 65. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
82.22 |
0.9843 |
-0.0005 |
234 |
1 |
82.22 |
2014-01-27 |
| 66. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
81.83 |
1.0630 |
-0.0740 |
397 |
1 |
81.83 |
2012-04-10 |
| 67. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
81.83 |
0.9881 |
0.0045 |
424 |
1 |
81.83 |
2014-01-27 |
| 68. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
81.32 |
0.9893 |
-0.0155 |
323 |
1 |
81.32 |
2014-01-27 |
| 69. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
81.13 |
1.0316 |
-0.0605 |
333 |
1 |
81.13 |
2012-04-10 |
| 70. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
80.99 |
0.9540 |
0.0158 |
285 |
1 |
80.99 |
2015-02-08 |
| 71. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
80.77 |
1.0090 |
-0.0252 |
282 |
1 |
80.77 |
2014-01-27 |
| 72. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
80.31 |
0.9897 |
-0.0280 |
274 |
1 |
80.31 |
2014-01-27 |
| 73. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
80.28 |
0.9084 |
0.0529 |
404 |
1 |
80.28 |
2014-01-27 |
| 74. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
79.93 |
1.0972 |
-0.1293 |
251 |
1 |
79.93 |
2016-12-28 |
| 75. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
79.54 |
1.0506 |
-0.0872 |
277 |
1 |
79.54 |
2014-01-27 |
| 76. |
It makes no difference, it don't make any difference to me w... |
79.43 |
1.0297 |
-0.0811 |
145 |
1 |
79.43 |
2016-12-30 |
| 77. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
79.41 |
1.0292 |
-0.0790 |
262 |
1 |
79.41 |
2014-01-27 |
| 78. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
78.91 |
0.9710 |
-0.0265 |
173 |
1 |
78.91 |
2014-01-27 |
| 79. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
78.91 |
0.9593 |
-0.0143 |
398 |
1 |
78.91 |
2014-01-27 |
| 80. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
78.89 |
1.0477 |
-0.1033 |
360 |
1 |
78.89 |
2015-06-02 |
| 81. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
78.82 |
1.0261 |
-0.0719 |
410 |
1 |
78.82 |
2014-01-27 |
| 82. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
78.18 |
0.9309 |
0.0048 |
284 |
1 |
78.18 |
2014-01-27 |
| 83. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
78.08 |
1.0138 |
-0.0791 |
231 |
1 |
78.08 |
2014-01-27 |
| 84. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
77.99 |
0.8826 |
0.0516 |
296 |
1 |
77.99 |
2016-12-31 |
| 85. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
77.99 |
0.9916 |
-0.0420 |
282 |
1 |
77.99 |
2014-01-27 |
| 86. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
77.94 |
0.9072 |
0.0263 |
237 |
3 |
71.59 |
2016-12-28 |
| 87. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
77.88 |
1.0459 |
-0.0995 |
200 |
2 |
75.07 |
2016-12-28 |
| 88. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
77.15 |
1.0534 |
-0.1301 |
357 |
1 |
77.15 |
2014-01-27 |
| 89. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
77.06 |
0.9364 |
-0.0001 |
351 |
1 |
77.06 |
2014-01-27 |
| 90. |
What the boys from Jiangxi had never even considered was tha... |
76.91 |
0.9257 |
-0.0036 |
554 |
1 |
76.91 |
2016-12-28 |
| 91. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
76.50 |
0.9597 |
-0.0435 |
347 |
1 |
76.50 |
2014-01-27 |
| 92. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
76.35 |
0.9898 |
-0.0641 |
353 |
1 |
76.35 |
2014-01-27 |
| 93. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
76.27 |
0.9965 |
-0.0839 |
277 |
2 |
74.03 |
2016-12-28 |
| 94. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
75.96 |
1.0131 |
-0.1039 |
225 |
1 |
75.96 |
2016-12-29 |
| 95. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
75.67 |
0.9529 |
-0.0319 |
269 |
1 |
75.67 |
2014-01-27 |
| 96. |
There are but two types of men who desire war: those who hav... |
75.50 |
1.0679 |
-0.1626 |
256 |
1 |
75.50 |
2017-01-01 |
| 97. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
75.33 |
1.0684 |
-0.1550 |
253 |
1 |
75.33 |
2014-01-27 |
| 98. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
75.19 |
1.0662 |
-0.1557 |
407 |
1 |
75.19 |
2014-01-27 |
| 99. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
74.99 |
0.8553 |
0.0422 |
174 |
1 |
74.99 |
2014-01-27 |
| 100. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
74.99 |
0.9064 |
-0.0083 |
399 |
1 |
74.99 |
2014-01-27 |
| 101. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
74.97 |
0.9731 |
-0.0760 |
129 |
1 |
74.97 |
2012-04-09 |
| 102. |
Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be... |
74.37 |
0.9817 |
-0.0899 |
282 |
1 |
74.37 |
2017-01-01 |
| 103. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
74.13 |
0.9785 |
-0.0910 |
335 |
1 |
74.13 |
2016-12-28 |
| 104. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
73.91 |
0.9148 |
-0.0299 |
317 |
1 |
73.91 |
2014-01-27 |
| 105. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
73.53 |
0.8919 |
-0.0118 |
205 |
1 |
73.53 |
2015-02-08 |
| 106. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
73.43 |
0.9087 |
-0.0295 |
393 |
1 |
73.43 |
2014-01-27 |
| 107. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
73.42 |
0.9846 |
-0.1059 |
281 |
1 |
73.42 |
2014-01-27 |
| 108. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
73.01 |
0.9801 |
-0.0939 |
428 |
1 |
73.01 |
2014-01-27 |
| 109. |
The Western States nervous under the beginning change. Texas... |
73.00 |
0.8939 |
-0.0186 |
327 |
1 |
73.00 |
2016-12-28 |
| 110. |
You think cooking is a cute job, huh? Like mommy in the kitc... |
72.86 |
1.0159 |
-0.1429 |
356 |
1 |
72.86 |
2016-12-28 |
| 111. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
72.67 |
0.9089 |
-0.0388 |
342 |
1 |
72.67 |
2016-12-28 |
| 112. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
72.15 |
1.0109 |
-0.1361 |
400 |
1 |
72.15 |
2016-12-28 |
| 113. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
71.90 |
0.9925 |
-0.1179 |
247 |
1 |
71.90 |
2014-01-27 |
| 114. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
71.67 |
0.9567 |
-0.0988 |
273 |
1 |
71.67 |
2016-12-28 |
| 115. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
71.31 |
0.9763 |
-0.1230 |
289 |
1 |
71.31 |
2015-02-08 |
| 116. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
70.47 |
0.9023 |
-0.0411 |
231 |
1 |
70.47 |
2014-01-27 |
| 117. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
70.09 |
1.0058 |
-0.1623 |
411 |
1 |
70.09 |
2014-01-27 |
| 118. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
69.78 |
1.0232 |
-0.1710 |
350 |
1 |
69.78 |
2015-06-02 |
| 119. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
69.00 |
1.0197 |
-0.1943 |
226 |
1 |
69.00 |
2014-01-27 |
| 120. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
68.94 |
0.8105 |
0.0145 |
204 |
1 |
68.94 |
2014-01-27 |
| 121. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
68.80 |
1.0025 |
-0.1798 |
336 |
1 |
68.80 |
2014-01-27 |
| 122. |
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their padd... |
68.78 |
0.9801 |
-0.1564 |
209 |
1 |
68.78 |
2016-12-29 |
| 123. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
68.71 |
0.8878 |
-0.0653 |
346 |
1 |
68.71 |
2014-01-27 |
| 124. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
65.75 |
0.9871 |
-0.1921 |
227 |
1 |
65.75 |
2016-12-28 |
| 125. |
Bullet Tooth Tony: "A bookie's got blagged last night." Avi:... |
64.69 |
0.7940 |
-0.0184 |
415 |
1 |
64.69 |
2016-12-28 |
| 126. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
64.19 |
0.9769 |
-0.2091 |
263 |
1 |
64.19 |
2012-04-09 |
| 127. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
61.64 |
0.9508 |
-0.2044 |
384 |
1 |
61.64 |
2014-01-27 |
| 128. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
59.59 |
0.9527 |
-0.2402 |
251 |
1 |
59.59 |
2014-01-27 |
| 129. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
58.21 |
1.0343 |
-0.3214 |
242 |
1 |
58.21 |
2016-12-31 |
| 130. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
58.04 |
0.9682 |
-0.2747 |
143 |
1 |
58.04 |
2014-01-27 |
| 131. |
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I ... |
51.00 |
1.0213 |
-0.4113 |
155 |
1 |
51.00 |
2016-12-28 |
| 132. |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
36.40 |
0.9657 |
-0.5305 |
44 |
1 |
36.40 |
2016-12-28 |