Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the common people. ... |
109.34 |
1.0611 |
0.4571 |
160 |
1 |
109.34 |
2020-10-01 |
2. |
When I ask him if quiz bowl has helped him in other areas of... |
108.29 |
1.0612 |
0.4435 |
150 |
1 |
108.29 |
2021-03-24 |
3. |
How much longer is this going to go on, do you think? Do you... |
99.77 |
1.0571 |
0.3276 |
331 |
1 |
99.77 |
2021-03-24 |
4. |
The green eyes, you're the one that I wanted to find and any... |
97.85 |
1.1291 |
0.2285 |
113 |
1 |
97.85 |
2021-03-24 |
5. |
Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away '... |
96.47 |
1.0252 |
0.3136 |
233 |
1 |
96.47 |
2021-03-24 |
6. |
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How ... |
95.14 |
1.0237 |
0.2975 |
198 |
1 |
95.14 |
2023-09-12 |
7. |
I search the faces of the gods... for ways to please you, to... |
94.95 |
1.0564 |
0.2614 |
264 |
1 |
94.95 |
2020-10-01 |
8. |
Spend all your time waiting for that second chance, for a br... |
94.71 |
1.1369 |
0.1777 |
176 |
1 |
94.71 |
2018-07-10 |
9. |
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust ... |
93.30 |
1.0108 |
0.2852 |
218 |
1 |
93.30 |
2020-10-01 |
10. |
Here is the average person's daily attention training: They ... |
91.94 |
1.0318 |
0.2453 |
705 |
1 |
91.94 |
2023-09-12 |
11. |
Remember before when I was talking about smelly garbage stan... |
91.70 |
1.0145 |
0.2593 |
295 |
1 |
91.70 |
2017-03-14 |
12. |
I never wanted to become someone like him. So secure, conten... |
91.62 |
1.0591 |
0.2125 |
245 |
1 |
91.62 |
2021-03-24 |
13. |
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith,... |
91.55 |
1.0575 |
0.2127 |
279 |
1 |
91.55 |
2018-07-10 |
14. |
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because ... |
91.35 |
1.0697 |
0.1986 |
264 |
1 |
91.35 |
2017-03-14 |
15. |
There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I sus... |
91.26 |
1.0350 |
0.2314 |
444 |
1 |
91.26 |
2023-09-12 |
16. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
90.45 |
1.0471 |
0.2137 |
406 |
1 |
90.45 |
2021-03-24 |
17. |
Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad.... |
89.76 |
1.0519 |
0.1939 |
336 |
1 |
89.76 |
2021-03-24 |
18. |
Never seen her glowing all that bright she's throwing like s... |
89.58 |
0.9879 |
0.2612 |
455 |
1 |
89.58 |
2020-10-01 |
19. |
At night I'm driving in your car, pretending that we'll leav... |
89.41 |
1.0276 |
0.2129 |
268 |
1 |
89.41 |
2021-03-24 |
20. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
89.01 |
1.0682 |
0.1680 |
266 |
1 |
89.01 |
2021-03-24 |
21. |
Only hope can give rise to the emotion we call despair. But ... |
88.32 |
1.0843 |
0.1392 |
209 |
1 |
88.32 |
2023-09-12 |
22. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
87.88 |
1.0476 |
0.1712 |
110 |
1 |
87.88 |
2018-06-19 |
23. |
Not only do we come into fairly regular contact with people ... |
87.80 |
1.0520 |
0.1677 |
253 |
1 |
87.80 |
2017-03-14 |
24. |
Is that what your little note says? It must be hard living y... |
87.53 |
1.0152 |
0.2001 |
201 |
1 |
87.53 |
2017-03-14 |
25. |
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you... |
87.50 |
1.0095 |
0.2049 |
458 |
1 |
87.50 |
2017-03-14 |
26. |
And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheava... |
87.47 |
1.0419 |
0.1722 |
333 |
1 |
87.47 |
2017-03-14 |
27. |
Our prematurity brought a second big advantage: it forced us... |
86.92 |
0.9992 |
0.2085 |
455 |
1 |
86.92 |
2017-04-20 |
28. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
85.91 |
0.8863 |
0.3078 |
127 |
1 |
85.91 |
2015-02-03 |
29. |
Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The t... |
85.81 |
1.0257 |
0.1650 |
381 |
1 |
85.81 |
2019-05-03 |
30. |
I want to say I'm sorry for stuff I haven't done yet. Things... |
84.87 |
0.9919 |
0.1913 |
397 |
1 |
84.87 |
2017-03-14 |
31. |
I don't know whether it's necessary or not; but this I do kn... |
84.29 |
0.9335 |
0.2401 |
142 |
1 |
84.29 |
2016-09-18 |
32. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
84.27 |
1.0676 |
0.1031 |
456 |
1 |
84.27 |
2015-04-17 |
33. |
Finally, there are those languages, such as Turkish, Finnish... |
84.17 |
0.9039 |
0.2653 |
353 |
1 |
84.17 |
2020-10-01 |
34. |
Just as there are painters and musicians among the poets, so... |
84.03 |
1.0272 |
0.1388 |
244 |
1 |
84.03 |
2017-03-14 |
35. |
But this rough magic I here abjure, and when I have required... |
83.51 |
0.9877 |
0.1713 |
284 |
1 |
83.51 |
2018-07-10 |
36. |
It makes a real difference in people's lives if they can dri... |
83.40 |
0.9922 |
0.1714 |
459 |
1 |
83.40 |
2018-06-19 |
37. |
It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting he... |
83.31 |
1.0485 |
0.1081 |
171 |
1 |
83.31 |
2017-03-14 |
38. |
Let me photograph you in this light, in case it is the last ... |
83.19 |
1.0698 |
0.0836 |
149 |
1 |
83.19 |
2020-10-01 |
39. |
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is... |
83.02 |
0.9421 |
0.2110 |
229 |
1 |
83.02 |
2023-09-12 |
40. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
81.19 |
0.9749 |
0.1568 |
337 |
1 |
81.19 |
2017-03-14 |
41. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
80.93 |
0.9745 |
0.1499 |
388 |
1 |
80.93 |
2015-02-04 |
42. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
80.62 |
0.9922 |
0.1276 |
264 |
1 |
80.62 |
2016-09-18 |
43. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
80.53 |
0.9991 |
0.1198 |
339 |
1 |
80.53 |
2015-04-17 |
44. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
80.51 |
0.9866 |
0.1316 |
308 |
2 |
71.40 |
2015-04-17 |
45. |
When I lay with you I could stay there. Close my eyes, feel ... |
80.47 |
1.0176 |
0.0988 |
257 |
1 |
80.47 |
2019-04-16 |
46. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
80.33 |
0.9368 |
0.1787 |
176 |
3 |
69.12 |
2012-05-17 |
47. |
Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I er... |
80.29 |
0.9979 |
0.1156 |
161 |
1 |
80.29 |
2021-03-24 |
48. |
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary fo... |
80.23 |
0.9215 |
0.1932 |
240 |
1 |
80.23 |
2017-03-05 |
49. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
79.95 |
0.9791 |
0.1312 |
154 |
1 |
79.95 |
2015-01-30 |
50. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
79.43 |
0.9948 |
0.1081 |
233 |
1 |
79.43 |
2017-03-05 |
51. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
79.17 |
0.9839 |
0.1155 |
196 |
2 |
65.98 |
2014-11-25 |
52. |
Everyone else in the bar had scattered or was still hugging ... |
79.15 |
0.9548 |
0.1443 |
301 |
1 |
79.15 |
2017-03-05 |
53. |
Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again!... |
78.95 |
0.9313 |
0.1686 |
269 |
1 |
78.95 |
2017-03-14 |
54. |
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening,... |
78.24 |
1.0049 |
0.0809 |
262 |
1 |
78.24 |
2016-09-18 |
55. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
77.63 |
1.0667 |
0.0168 |
308 |
1 |
77.63 |
2014-04-14 |
56. |
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to co... |
77.51 |
0.9460 |
0.1340 |
490 |
1 |
77.51 |
2017-03-05 |
57. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
76.82 |
0.9332 |
0.1336 |
295 |
1 |
76.82 |
2016-09-18 |
58. |
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it... |
76.02 |
1.0535 |
0.0017 |
400 |
1 |
76.02 |
2019-04-16 |
59. |
A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by ... |
75.50 |
1.0251 |
0.0221 |
284 |
1 |
75.50 |
2019-04-16 |
60. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
75.48 |
0.9852 |
0.0631 |
235 |
1 |
75.48 |
2016-09-18 |
61. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
75.38 |
1.0520 |
-0.0013 |
392 |
2 |
75.22 |
2015-02-04 |
62. |
That's what makes you dangerous. It's not the mask, it's not... |
75.23 |
0.9709 |
0.0770 |
234 |
1 |
75.23 |
2019-04-16 |
63. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
75.08 |
0.9817 |
0.0656 |
304 |
2 |
68.79 |
2015-04-17 |
64. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
74.98 |
0.9809 |
0.0657 |
250 |
1 |
74.98 |
2012-05-17 |
65. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
73.90 |
1.0094 |
0.0169 |
256 |
2 |
71.36 |
2015-02-04 |
66. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
73.70 |
1.0199 |
0.0032 |
225 |
1 |
73.70 |
2014-04-14 |
67. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
73.39 |
0.9606 |
0.0645 |
203 |
2 |
67.12 |
2021-01-07 |
68. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
73.37 |
0.9703 |
0.0494 |
394 |
1 |
73.37 |
2015-04-17 |
69. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
73.17 |
1.0418 |
-0.0263 |
214 |
1 |
73.17 |
2015-01-30 |
70. |
"Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding," Joseph... |
73.13 |
0.8995 |
0.1191 |
489 |
1 |
73.13 |
2018-06-21 |
71. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
73.12 |
1.0588 |
-0.0436 |
281 |
1 |
73.12 |
2012-05-30 |
72. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
72.61 |
1.0103 |
-0.0022 |
209 |
3 |
71.40 |
2013-09-17 |
73. |
Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each sess... |
72.56 |
0.9548 |
0.0575 |
328 |
1 |
72.56 |
2018-07-10 |
74. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
72.11 |
0.9989 |
0.0078 |
282 |
1 |
72.11 |
2012-05-31 |
75. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
72.02 |
0.9258 |
0.0800 |
184 |
2 |
62.13 |
2012-06-28 |
76. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
71.90 |
1.0063 |
-0.0030 |
293 |
1 |
71.90 |
2014-11-25 |
77. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
71.90 |
1.0320 |
-0.0334 |
401 |
1 |
71.90 |
2012-05-15 |
78. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
71.30 |
0.8656 |
0.1248 |
242 |
2 |
69.17 |
2015-04-17 |
79. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
70.46 |
0.9829 |
-0.0046 |
229 |
1 |
70.46 |
2012-05-17 |
80. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
70.35 |
0.9684 |
0.0094 |
240 |
1 |
70.35 |
2012-05-15 |
81. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
70.31 |
0.9330 |
0.0488 |
341 |
2 |
64.08 |
2015-04-17 |
82. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
70.31 |
0.8873 |
0.0900 |
241 |
1 |
70.31 |
2015-02-03 |
83. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
69.81 |
1.1198 |
-0.1511 |
247 |
1 |
69.81 |
2012-05-10 |
84. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
69.67 |
1.0204 |
-0.0534 |
143 |
1 |
69.67 |
2012-05-09 |
85. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
69.41 |
1.0130 |
-0.0494 |
288 |
1 |
69.41 |
2015-02-03 |
86. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
68.65 |
0.9480 |
0.0062 |
297 |
1 |
68.65 |
2018-07-10 |
87. |
Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means every... |
68.53 |
1.0577 |
-0.1087 |
165 |
1 |
68.53 |
2021-03-24 |
88. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
68.25 |
1.1062 |
-0.1549 |
200 |
1 |
68.25 |
2012-05-10 |
89. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
68.21 |
1.0131 |
-0.0615 |
245 |
1 |
68.21 |
2012-05-09 |
90. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
67.96 |
0.9836 |
-0.0392 |
123 |
1 |
67.96 |
2012-05-15 |
91. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
67.94 |
1.0403 |
-0.0972 |
234 |
1 |
67.94 |
2014-11-25 |
92. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
67.71 |
1.0792 |
-0.1352 |
251 |
2 |
67.26 |
2012-05-30 |
93. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
67.47 |
0.8974 |
0.0440 |
365 |
2 |
66.02 |
2015-01-30 |
94. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
67.25 |
1.0617 |
-0.1294 |
171 |
2 |
51.99 |
2015-02-03 |
95. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
66.64 |
1.0638 |
-0.1391 |
247 |
1 |
66.64 |
2012-05-04 |
96. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
66.56 |
0.9842 |
-0.0596 |
335 |
1 |
66.56 |
2012-05-09 |
97. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
66.29 |
0.9680 |
-0.0475 |
256 |
1 |
66.29 |
2012-05-10 |
98. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
65.51 |
1.0686 |
-0.1592 |
354 |
1 |
65.51 |
2012-05-08 |
99. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
65.47 |
0.8993 |
0.0105 |
366 |
1 |
65.47 |
2012-06-28 |
100. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
65.33 |
1.0291 |
-0.1223 |
240 |
2 |
61.59 |
2015-04-17 |
101. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
65.20 |
1.0101 |
-0.1052 |
336 |
1 |
65.20 |
2012-05-08 |
102. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
65.15 |
1.0270 |
-0.1222 |
303 |
1 |
65.15 |
2012-05-09 |
103. |
Maybe you should come with me for a few weeks. See what happ... |
65.05 |
1.0364 |
-0.1352 |
124 |
1 |
65.05 |
2021-03-24 |
104. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
64.56 |
0.8837 |
0.0135 |
157 |
1 |
64.56 |
2012-05-09 |
105. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
64.55 |
1.0039 |
-0.1028 |
255 |
1 |
64.55 |
2012-05-15 |
106. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
64.21 |
0.9265 |
-0.0351 |
254 |
1 |
64.21 |
2012-05-15 |
107. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
63.95 |
0.9644 |
-0.0760 |
398 |
1 |
63.95 |
2013-09-17 |
108. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
63.82 |
0.9947 |
-0.1038 |
346 |
1 |
63.82 |
2012-05-17 |
109. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
63.69 |
1.0042 |
-0.1205 |
168 |
1 |
63.69 |
2015-02-03 |
110. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
62.99 |
1.0304 |
-0.1511 |
257 |
1 |
62.99 |
2013-09-17 |
111. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
61.85 |
0.9123 |
-0.0487 |
351 |
1 |
61.85 |
2012-05-15 |
112. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
61.74 |
0.9801 |
-0.1235 |
289 |
1 |
61.74 |
2015-02-04 |
113. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
61.43 |
0.9359 |
-0.0830 |
355 |
1 |
61.43 |
2012-05-30 |
114. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
60.67 |
0.9434 |
-0.1007 |
367 |
1 |
60.67 |
2012-05-31 |
115. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
60.63 |
0.9530 |
-0.1116 |
193 |
1 |
60.63 |
2012-05-10 |
116. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
60.39 |
1.0372 |
-0.1996 |
249 |
1 |
60.39 |
2012-05-31 |
117. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
58.43 |
0.9841 |
-0.1671 |
325 |
1 |
58.43 |
2010-01-13 |
118. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
58.41 |
1.0243 |
-0.2084 |
153 |
1 |
58.41 |
2015-04-17 |
119. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
58.09 |
0.9346 |
-0.1286 |
211 |
1 |
58.09 |
2010-01-12 |
120. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
58.01 |
0.9068 |
-0.1018 |
212 |
1 |
58.01 |
2015-02-03 |
121. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
58.01 |
0.9682 |
-0.1577 |
341 |
2 |
53.16 |
2015-02-04 |
122. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
57.56 |
0.9143 |
-0.1152 |
300 |
1 |
57.56 |
2012-05-15 |
123. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
57.38 |
0.8437 |
-0.0470 |
268 |
1 |
57.38 |
2012-05-09 |
124. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
56.90 |
0.9299 |
-0.1403 |
168 |
1 |
56.90 |
2012-05-09 |
125. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
55.81 |
0.9502 |
-0.1746 |
312 |
1 |
55.81 |
2012-05-10 |
126. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
55.09 |
0.8775 |
-0.1130 |
185 |
1 |
55.09 |
2012-05-15 |
127. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
54.46 |
0.9271 |
-0.1712 |
323 |
1 |
54.46 |
2015-02-04 |
128. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
54.33 |
0.9468 |
-0.1925 |
318 |
1 |
54.33 |
2012-05-10 |
129. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
53.64 |
0.9203 |
-0.1750 |
350 |
1 |
53.64 |
2012-05-15 |
130. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
52.39 |
0.9864 |
-0.2590 |
292 |
1 |
52.39 |
2015-02-04 |
131. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
51.89 |
1.0178 |
-0.2979 |
207 |
1 |
51.89 |
2010-01-12 |
132. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
49.39 |
1.0060 |
-0.3201 |
260 |
1 |
49.39 |
2012-05-15 |
133. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
49.12 |
1.0576 |
-0.3770 |
231 |
1 |
49.12 |
2012-05-16 |
134. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
48.58 |
0.8172 |
-0.1435 |
204 |
1 |
48.58 |
2010-04-28 |
135. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
46.80 |
0.9931 |
-0.3444 |
218 |
1 |
46.80 |
2012-05-15 |
136. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
46.54 |
1.0288 |
-0.3836 |
166 |
1 |
46.54 |
2012-05-15 |
137. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
45.20 |
0.9745 |
-0.3474 |
217 |
1 |
45.20 |
2012-05-15 |
138. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
44.67 |
0.8887 |
-0.2637 |
464 |
1 |
44.67 |
2010-01-13 |
139. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
44.27 |
0.9713 |
-0.3574 |
193 |
1 |
44.27 |
2012-05-15 |
140. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
44.14 |
1.0461 |
-0.4296 |
286 |
1 |
44.14 |
2012-05-15 |
141. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
40.94 |
1.0561 |
-0.4889 |
227 |
1 |
40.94 |
2012-05-15 |
142. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
39.06 |
0.9824 |
-0.4361 |
352 |
1 |
39.06 |
2012-05-09 |
143. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
32.91 |
0.9981 |
-0.5421 |
211 |
1 |
32.91 |
2012-05-15 |