| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
151.55 |
1.0086 |
0.2474 |
218 |
1 |
151.55 |
2010-02-08 |
| 2. |
I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don... |
148.96 |
1.1063 |
0.1303 |
158 |
1 |
148.96 |
2021-09-09 |
| 3. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
147.04 |
1.0960 |
0.1259 |
315 |
1 |
147.04 |
2010-02-23 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
147.02 |
1.0881 |
0.1304 |
210 |
3 |
141.24 |
2010-03-08 |
| 5. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
146.78 |
1.0667 |
0.1600 |
308 |
2 |
124.76 |
2010-01-28 |
| 6. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
145.39 |
1.0495 |
0.1574 |
323 |
2 |
136.87 |
2010-03-23 |
| 7. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
144.10 |
1.0487 |
0.1459 |
253 |
1 |
144.10 |
2010-01-25 |
| 8. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
142.98 |
0.9763 |
0.2100 |
143 |
1 |
142.98 |
2010-02-23 |
| 9. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
142.15 |
1.0304 |
0.1449 |
256 |
2 |
134.70 |
2010-02-23 |
| 10. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
141.59 |
1.1093 |
0.0619 |
220 |
1 |
141.59 |
2010-01-28 |
| 11. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
140.85 |
1.0444 |
0.1322 |
487 |
1 |
140.85 |
2010-02-09 |
| 12. |
You should just get a van. With a van, it's like you've got ... |
139.95 |
0.9779 |
0.1816 |
201 |
1 |
139.95 |
2021-09-09 |
| 13. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
139.63 |
1.0130 |
0.1463 |
288 |
1 |
139.63 |
2010-02-08 |
| 14. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
139.53 |
1.0466 |
0.1116 |
230 |
2 |
126.73 |
2010-03-11 |
| 15. |
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wa... |
139.10 |
1.1584 |
-0.0069 |
171 |
1 |
139.10 |
2021-09-09 |
| 16. |
This was supposed to be a question. Not a poem, confession o... |
139.07 |
1.0696 |
0.0763 |
163 |
1 |
139.07 |
2021-09-09 |
| 17. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
137.64 |
1.0432 |
0.0979 |
276 |
2 |
126.07 |
2010-02-23 |
| 18. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
137.06 |
1.0125 |
0.1242 |
232 |
2 |
130.32 |
2010-03-01 |
| 19. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
137.00 |
1.1086 |
0.0272 |
233 |
2 |
132.34 |
2010-01-25 |
| 20. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
135.96 |
1.0543 |
0.0717 |
182 |
2 |
128.02 |
2010-03-04 |
| 21. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
135.73 |
1.0372 |
0.0880 |
249 |
1 |
135.73 |
2010-02-01 |
| 22. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
135.68 |
1.0192 |
0.1127 |
243 |
3 |
120.49 |
2010-01-25 |
| 23. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
135.46 |
0.9703 |
0.1559 |
394 |
1 |
135.46 |
2010-03-01 |
| 24. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
135.23 |
0.9841 |
0.1370 |
217 |
3 |
121.15 |
2010-03-08 |
| 25. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
134.41 |
0.9673 |
0.1495 |
393 |
1 |
134.41 |
2010-01-28 |
| 26. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
134.32 |
1.0524 |
0.0643 |
177 |
1 |
134.32 |
2009-12-15 |
| 27. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
134.18 |
0.9873 |
0.1336 |
396 |
2 |
129.12 |
2021-09-09 |
| 28. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
132.91 |
1.0042 |
0.0974 |
168 |
1 |
132.91 |
2010-01-19 |
| 29. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
132.34 |
0.9713 |
0.1258 |
193 |
2 |
129.95 |
2010-02-10 |
| 30. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
131.74 |
0.9743 |
0.1275 |
397 |
1 |
131.74 |
2011-11-16 |
| 31. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
131.65 |
1.0103 |
0.0797 |
209 |
1 |
131.65 |
2009-11-25 |
| 32. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
131.63 |
1.0759 |
0.0217 |
273 |
2 |
127.02 |
2010-03-01 |
| 33. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
130.25 |
1.0411 |
0.0393 |
341 |
1 |
130.25 |
2009-12-15 |
| 34. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
129.80 |
0.9931 |
0.0860 |
339 |
1 |
129.80 |
2010-01-28 |
| 35. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
129.32 |
1.0865 |
-0.0133 |
237 |
1 |
129.32 |
2010-02-25 |
| 36. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
128.80 |
0.9852 |
0.0823 |
235 |
1 |
128.80 |
2010-02-08 |
| 37. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
127.64 |
1.0669 |
-0.0066 |
379 |
3 |
120.77 |
2010-02-01 |
| 38. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
127.55 |
0.9885 |
0.0692 |
355 |
1 |
127.55 |
2010-02-01 |
| 39. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
127.06 |
1.0736 |
-0.0189 |
350 |
1 |
127.06 |
2009-11-25 |
| 40. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
126.38 |
1.0540 |
-0.0081 |
184 |
1 |
126.38 |
2010-02-25 |
| 41. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
126.18 |
0.9915 |
0.0546 |
281 |
2 |
114.10 |
2010-03-23 |
| 42. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
125.25 |
1.0387 |
0.0021 |
333 |
1 |
125.25 |
2010-02-08 |
| 43. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
124.98 |
0.9503 |
0.0843 |
211 |
1 |
124.98 |
2009-11-25 |
| 44. |
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though i... |
124.45 |
1.0481 |
-0.0217 |
216 |
1 |
124.45 |
2021-09-09 |
| 45. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
123.64 |
1.0462 |
-0.0193 |
340 |
1 |
123.64 |
2010-01-28 |
| 46. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
123.39 |
1.0063 |
0.0231 |
293 |
2 |
117.43 |
2010-03-03 |
| 47. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
122.93 |
1.0427 |
-0.0233 |
269 |
2 |
118.87 |
2010-02-02 |
| 48. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
122.91 |
1.0006 |
0.0187 |
311 |
1 |
122.91 |
2010-01-28 |
| 49. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
122.57 |
1.0576 |
-0.0421 |
231 |
2 |
109.73 |
2010-01-28 |
| 50. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
121.22 |
0.9869 |
0.0175 |
193 |
3 |
115.38 |
2010-02-23 |
| 51. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
121.20 |
1.0521 |
-0.0506 |
197 |
2 |
120.34 |
2010-02-02 |
| 52. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
120.79 |
0.9809 |
0.0283 |
250 |
1 |
120.79 |
2010-04-26 |
| 53. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
120.51 |
1.0873 |
-0.0902 |
243 |
1 |
120.51 |
2010-01-25 |
| 54. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
120.43 |
0.9324 |
0.0754 |
440 |
1 |
120.43 |
2010-01-25 |
| 55. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
119.75 |
0.9981 |
-0.0061 |
211 |
1 |
119.75 |
2010-02-23 |
| 56. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
119.54 |
0.9649 |
0.0326 |
360 |
1 |
119.54 |
2009-11-25 |
| 57. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
119.51 |
1.0450 |
-0.0512 |
358 |
1 |
119.51 |
2010-02-01 |
| 58. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
118.81 |
1.0264 |
-0.0430 |
191 |
1 |
118.81 |
2010-03-11 |
| 59. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
118.70 |
1.0178 |
-0.0331 |
207 |
2 |
111.66 |
2010-03-11 |
| 60. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
118.55 |
1.0060 |
-0.0158 |
244 |
2 |
109.86 |
2010-02-25 |
| 61. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
117.76 |
1.0036 |
-0.0267 |
277 |
2 |
104.59 |
2010-01-28 |
| 62. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
117.33 |
1.0504 |
-0.0753 |
225 |
2 |
112.36 |
2010-01-25 |
| 63. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
117.10 |
0.9996 |
-0.0262 |
483 |
1 |
117.10 |
2011-11-16 |
| 64. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
116.74 |
0.9203 |
0.0464 |
350 |
1 |
116.74 |
2010-02-01 |
| 65. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
116.25 |
1.0529 |
-0.0866 |
373 |
1 |
116.25 |
2009-11-25 |
| 66. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
115.65 |
1.0506 |
-0.0921 |
259 |
1 |
115.65 |
2010-03-11 |
| 67. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
115.43 |
1.0883 |
-0.1259 |
189 |
1 |
115.43 |
2010-02-09 |
| 68. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
115.13 |
1.0461 |
-0.0910 |
318 |
1 |
115.13 |
2009-11-25 |
| 69. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
115.09 |
0.9857 |
-0.0254 |
268 |
1 |
115.09 |
2011-11-16 |
| 70. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
114.89 |
1.0288 |
-0.0787 |
166 |
1 |
114.89 |
2010-03-03 |
| 71. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
113.88 |
1.0188 |
-0.0682 |
316 |
1 |
113.88 |
2009-11-25 |
| 72. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
113.85 |
0.9756 |
-0.0318 |
223 |
1 |
113.85 |
2010-01-19 |
| 73. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
113.72 |
0.9583 |
-0.0153 |
237 |
2 |
111.90 |
2010-01-28 |
| 74. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
113.66 |
1.0181 |
-0.0754 |
276 |
2 |
111.48 |
2010-03-08 |
| 75. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
113.60 |
1.0418 |
-0.1001 |
214 |
1 |
113.60 |
2010-01-28 |
| 76. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
113.45 |
0.9765 |
-0.0365 |
269 |
1 |
113.45 |
2010-03-08 |
| 77. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
113.41 |
0.8830 |
0.0583 |
300 |
1 |
113.41 |
2010-01-28 |
| 78. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
112.87 |
1.0362 |
-0.0980 |
437 |
2 |
110.23 |
2009-12-08 |
| 79. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
112.59 |
1.0901 |
-0.1562 |
288 |
1 |
112.59 |
2010-02-08 |
| 80. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
112.44 |
0.9854 |
-0.0504 |
174 |
1 |
112.44 |
2010-02-01 |
| 81. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
112.05 |
1.0969 |
-0.1699 |
303 |
1 |
112.05 |
2010-01-25 |
| 82. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
110.31 |
1.0845 |
-0.1713 |
212 |
1 |
110.31 |
2010-02-25 |
| 83. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
110.12 |
0.9603 |
-0.0445 |
430 |
1 |
110.12 |
2010-01-28 |
| 84. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
110.06 |
0.9352 |
-0.0245 |
194 |
1 |
110.06 |
2010-01-28 |
| 85. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
109.15 |
1.0106 |
-0.1066 |
302 |
1 |
109.15 |
2010-03-11 |
| 86. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
108.96 |
0.9332 |
-0.0300 |
295 |
1 |
108.96 |
2010-02-01 |
| 87. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
108.23 |
1.0498 |
-0.1534 |
261 |
1 |
108.23 |
2010-01-19 |
| 88. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
107.29 |
0.9698 |
-0.0795 |
389 |
1 |
107.29 |
2010-01-26 |
| 89. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
107.03 |
1.0334 |
-0.1462 |
261 |
1 |
107.03 |
2010-01-25 |
| 90. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
106.63 |
0.9424 |
-0.0574 |
320 |
1 |
106.63 |
2009-12-15 |
| 91. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
106.52 |
0.9068 |
-0.0240 |
212 |
1 |
106.52 |
2010-02-02 |
| 92. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
106.51 |
1.0018 |
-0.1199 |
246 |
1 |
106.51 |
2010-03-03 |
| 93. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
106.41 |
1.0287 |
-0.1471 |
269 |
1 |
106.41 |
2010-01-25 |
| 94. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
105.93 |
0.9392 |
-0.0579 |
360 |
1 |
105.93 |
2009-11-25 |
| 95. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
105.85 |
0.9357 |
-0.0596 |
204 |
1 |
105.85 |
2009-12-15 |
| 96. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
105.76 |
0.9271 |
-0.0511 |
295 |
1 |
105.76 |
2010-01-25 |
| 97. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
104.74 |
0.9974 |
-0.1317 |
163 |
1 |
104.74 |
2010-02-02 |
| 98. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
102.75 |
0.9948 |
-0.1454 |
233 |
1 |
102.75 |
2010-02-08 |
| 99. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
102.30 |
0.9829 |
-0.1360 |
229 |
1 |
102.30 |
2010-01-28 |
| 100. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
101.14 |
0.9604 |
-0.1230 |
285 |
1 |
101.14 |
2010-01-28 |
| 101. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
100.50 |
0.9801 |
-0.1402 |
282 |
1 |
100.50 |
2010-01-19 |
| 102. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
99.49 |
0.8964 |
-0.0732 |
199 |
1 |
99.49 |
2010-02-25 |
| 103. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
97.31 |
1.0600 |
-0.2535 |
351 |
1 |
97.31 |
2010-01-25 |
| 104. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
96.88 |
0.9841 |
-0.1737 |
325 |
1 |
96.88 |
2010-01-26 |
| 105. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
96.59 |
0.9631 |
-0.1635 |
273 |
1 |
96.59 |
2009-11-25 |
| 106. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
94.59 |
0.8666 |
-0.0846 |
206 |
1 |
94.59 |
2010-01-26 |
| 107. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
94.46 |
1.0165 |
-0.2344 |
316 |
1 |
94.46 |
2010-01-28 |
| 108. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
94.13 |
1.0291 |
-0.2504 |
240 |
1 |
94.13 |
2010-02-02 |
| 109. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
92.37 |
0.9817 |
-0.2112 |
304 |
1 |
92.37 |
2010-01-19 |
| 110. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
85.86 |
0.9880 |
-0.2804 |
199 |
1 |
85.86 |
2010-02-02 |