| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
157.16 |
1.0577 |
0.1500 |
247 |
1 |
157.16 |
2008-10-17 |
| 2. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
153.98 |
1.0767 |
0.1075 |
212 |
2 |
143.84 |
2011-10-23 |
| 3. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
149.61 |
0.9632 |
0.1956 |
392 |
2 |
136.55 |
2011-10-23 |
| 4. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
149.14 |
0.9697 |
0.1792 |
249 |
1 |
149.14 |
2011-10-23 |
| 5. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
148.81 |
1.0711 |
0.0700 |
213 |
2 |
142.69 |
2008-10-17 |
| 6. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
148.02 |
1.0263 |
0.1129 |
267 |
1 |
148.02 |
2008-10-17 |
| 7. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
147.65 |
1.0296 |
0.1139 |
437 |
2 |
143.58 |
2008-10-17 |
| 8. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
146.19 |
1.0297 |
0.0949 |
249 |
1 |
146.19 |
2008-10-17 |
| 9. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
145.47 |
0.9922 |
0.1690 |
341 |
2 |
136.40 |
2011-10-23 |
| 10. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
144.04 |
1.0328 |
0.1143 |
356 |
1 |
144.04 |
2011-10-23 |
| 11. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
143.96 |
0.9768 |
0.1342 |
387 |
2 |
135.79 |
2011-11-07 |
| 12. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
142.71 |
0.9846 |
0.1129 |
281 |
1 |
142.71 |
2008-09-22 |
| 13. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
142.52 |
0.9785 |
0.1219 |
335 |
2 |
131.03 |
2008-11-04 |
| 14. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
141.58 |
0.9894 |
0.1048 |
323 |
1 |
141.58 |
2008-11-04 |
| 15. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
141.50 |
1.0521 |
0.0323 |
171 |
2 |
137.62 |
2011-10-23 |
| 16. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
140.86 |
0.9899 |
0.0896 |
163 |
1 |
140.86 |
2011-10-23 |
| 17. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
140.72 |
0.9514 |
0.1320 |
237 |
1 |
140.72 |
2008-11-04 |
| 18. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
140.18 |
0.9851 |
0.0960 |
317 |
1 |
140.18 |
2008-11-04 |
| 19. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
139.47 |
1.0251 |
0.0461 |
261 |
1 |
139.47 |
2008-09-23 |
| 20. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
138.72 |
0.9936 |
0.0737 |
311 |
1 |
138.72 |
2008-10-17 |
| 21. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
138.52 |
1.0666 |
-0.0005 |
297 |
1 |
138.52 |
2008-09-22 |
| 22. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
138.25 |
1.0667 |
0.0357 |
406 |
1 |
138.25 |
2011-10-23 |
| 23. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
137.78 |
1.0352 |
0.0281 |
341 |
1 |
137.78 |
2011-10-23 |
| 24. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
137.65 |
1.0714 |
-0.0211 |
129 |
1 |
137.65 |
2008-11-04 |
| 25. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
137.56 |
0.9786 |
0.0747 |
193 |
1 |
137.56 |
2008-11-04 |
| 26. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
137.36 |
0.9965 |
0.0608 |
310 |
1 |
137.36 |
2008-09-26 |
| 27. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
137.22 |
1.0169 |
0.0776 |
346 |
1 |
137.22 |
2011-11-10 |
| 28. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
137.07 |
1.0379 |
0.0517 |
245 |
1 |
137.07 |
2011-10-23 |
| 29. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
137.00 |
1.0613 |
-0.0021 |
456 |
1 |
137.00 |
2008-11-04 |
| 30. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
136.19 |
1.0389 |
0.0114 |
340 |
3 |
131.61 |
2008-12-03 |
| 31. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
136.06 |
0.9527 |
0.0941 |
251 |
1 |
136.06 |
2011-10-23 |
| 32. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
135.93 |
1.0257 |
0.0265 |
401 |
2 |
132.77 |
2011-10-23 |
| 33. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
135.60 |
0.9756 |
0.0664 |
229 |
1 |
135.60 |
2008-10-17 |
| 34. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
135.19 |
1.0337 |
0.0058 |
214 |
1 |
135.19 |
2008-10-17 |
| 35. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
135.12 |
1.0555 |
-0.0146 |
363 |
2 |
133.72 |
2008-11-04 |
| 36. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
134.95 |
1.0023 |
0.0340 |
211 |
1 |
134.95 |
2008-10-17 |
| 37. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
134.51 |
0.9941 |
0.0383 |
217 |
2 |
119.37 |
2011-10-23 |
| 38. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
134.43 |
0.9991 |
0.0356 |
225 |
3 |
131.53 |
2011-10-23 |
| 39. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
133.82 |
0.9365 |
0.0943 |
248 |
1 |
133.82 |
2008-11-04 |
| 40. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
133.71 |
1.0498 |
-0.0261 |
180 |
1 |
133.71 |
2011-10-23 |
| 41. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
132.95 |
0.9884 |
0.0334 |
233 |
1 |
132.95 |
2011-10-23 |
| 42. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
132.51 |
1.0740 |
-0.0165 |
264 |
1 |
132.51 |
2011-10-23 |
| 43. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
132.45 |
0.9997 |
0.0226 |
382 |
1 |
132.45 |
2008-11-04 |
| 44. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
131.89 |
1.0141 |
0.0366 |
304 |
1 |
131.89 |
2011-10-23 |
| 45. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
131.24 |
0.9430 |
0.0590 |
211 |
1 |
131.24 |
2011-10-23 |
| 46. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
131.24 |
0.9597 |
0.0537 |
347 |
1 |
131.24 |
2008-09-27 |
| 47. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
131.16 |
1.0203 |
-0.0082 |
261 |
2 |
118.67 |
2008-11-04 |
| 48. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
131.06 |
0.9734 |
0.0342 |
289 |
2 |
129.66 |
2008-11-04 |
| 49. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
130.98 |
0.9646 |
0.0418 |
264 |
1 |
130.98 |
2011-10-23 |
| 50. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
130.49 |
1.0141 |
0.0295 |
381 |
1 |
130.49 |
2011-11-07 |
| 51. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
130.31 |
1.0441 |
-0.0007 |
316 |
1 |
130.31 |
2011-10-23 |
| 52. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
130.18 |
0.8933 |
0.1142 |
363 |
2 |
115.62 |
2008-11-04 |
| 53. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
130.10 |
0.8958 |
0.1092 |
322 |
1 |
130.10 |
2011-11-07 |
| 54. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
129.46 |
1.0063 |
-0.0105 |
371 |
1 |
129.46 |
2008-09-26 |
| 55. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
129.25 |
0.9109 |
0.0855 |
401 |
2 |
129.02 |
2011-10-23 |
| 56. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
129.25 |
1.0555 |
-0.0320 |
323 |
1 |
129.25 |
2011-10-23 |
| 57. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
129.15 |
1.0677 |
-0.0443 |
284 |
1 |
129.15 |
2011-10-23 |
| 58. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
128.48 |
1.0496 |
-0.0625 |
314 |
1 |
128.48 |
2008-10-17 |
| 59. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
128.46 |
0.9698 |
0.0508 |
397 |
2 |
122.30 |
2011-10-23 |
| 60. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
128.46 |
0.9672 |
0.0270 |
396 |
2 |
124.45 |
2008-09-26 |
| 61. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
128.17 |
0.9212 |
0.0675 |
323 |
1 |
128.17 |
2008-09-26 |
| 62. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
128.09 |
1.0668 |
-0.0795 |
350 |
1 |
128.09 |
2008-09-22 |
| 63. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
127.72 |
1.0120 |
-0.0309 |
290 |
1 |
127.72 |
2011-10-23 |
| 64. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
127.07 |
0.9820 |
-0.0024 |
267 |
1 |
127.07 |
2008-09-22 |
| 65. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
126.98 |
0.9500 |
0.0283 |
362 |
1 |
126.98 |
2008-09-22 |
| 66. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
126.86 |
0.9852 |
-0.0097 |
264 |
2 |
123.34 |
2011-10-23 |
| 67. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
126.78 |
0.9676 |
0.0153 |
442 |
1 |
126.78 |
2008-11-04 |
| 68. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
126.59 |
0.9843 |
-0.0162 |
234 |
1 |
126.59 |
2011-10-23 |
| 69. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
126.41 |
0.9675 |
0.0137 |
383 |
2 |
122.56 |
2011-10-23 |
| 70. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
126.27 |
1.0531 |
-0.0444 |
272 |
1 |
126.27 |
2011-10-23 |
| 71. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
125.66 |
0.8467 |
0.1433 |
343 |
1 |
125.66 |
2011-10-23 |
| 72. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
125.57 |
1.0459 |
-0.0496 |
200 |
1 |
125.57 |
2011-10-23 |
| 73. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
125.45 |
0.8602 |
0.1018 |
206 |
1 |
125.45 |
2008-11-04 |
| 74. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
125.30 |
0.9740 |
-0.0151 |
209 |
1 |
125.30 |
2008-11-04 |
| 75. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
125.16 |
1.0124 |
-0.0528 |
204 |
1 |
125.16 |
2008-12-03 |
| 76. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
124.49 |
1.0528 |
-0.1011 |
201 |
2 |
123.06 |
2008-09-22 |
| 77. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
124.49 |
0.9468 |
0.0094 |
276 |
1 |
124.49 |
2008-09-22 |
| 78. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
124.48 |
0.9553 |
0.0086 |
430 |
2 |
121.50 |
2011-10-23 |
| 79. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
124.39 |
1.0331 |
-0.0793 |
234 |
1 |
124.39 |
2011-11-07 |
| 80. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
124.12 |
0.9772 |
-0.0268 |
217 |
1 |
124.12 |
2008-09-27 |
| 81. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
123.69 |
1.0168 |
-0.0649 |
271 |
1 |
123.69 |
2008-09-26 |
| 82. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
123.62 |
0.8553 |
0.0896 |
174 |
1 |
123.62 |
2011-10-23 |
| 83. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
123.36 |
0.9795 |
-0.0316 |
308 |
1 |
123.36 |
2011-10-23 |
| 84. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
123.15 |
0.9780 |
-0.0307 |
337 |
1 |
123.15 |
2008-12-03 |
| 85. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
123.07 |
0.9097 |
0.0776 |
464 |
1 |
123.07 |
2011-10-23 |
| 86. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
122.80 |
0.9330 |
0.0172 |
360 |
2 |
118.68 |
2011-10-23 |
| 87. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
122.79 |
1.0644 |
-0.0848 |
257 |
1 |
122.79 |
2011-10-23 |
| 88. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
122.39 |
1.0214 |
-0.0864 |
166 |
1 |
122.39 |
2008-11-04 |
| 89. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
121.05 |
1.0201 |
-0.0898 |
303 |
1 |
121.05 |
2008-11-04 |
| 90. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
120.95 |
0.9844 |
-0.0504 |
293 |
1 |
120.95 |
2011-10-23 |
| 91. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
120.47 |
0.8996 |
0.0203 |
192 |
1 |
120.47 |
2008-11-04 |
| 92. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
120.23 |
0.9464 |
-0.0177 |
323 |
1 |
120.23 |
2008-10-17 |
| 93. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
119.99 |
1.0343 |
-0.0752 |
242 |
1 |
119.99 |
2011-11-10 |
| 94. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
119.91 |
1.0138 |
-0.0931 |
231 |
1 |
119.91 |
2008-12-03 |
| 95. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
119.09 |
0.9866 |
-0.0756 |
218 |
2 |
118.38 |
2008-10-17 |
| 96. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
118.60 |
0.9612 |
-0.0503 |
256 |
1 |
118.60 |
2008-09-23 |
| 97. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
118.19 |
0.9266 |
-0.0188 |
267 |
1 |
118.19 |
2008-10-17 |
| 98. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
117.83 |
0.9578 |
-0.0534 |
281 |
1 |
117.83 |
2008-10-17 |
| 99. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
117.79 |
0.8722 |
0.0352 |
285 |
1 |
117.79 |
2008-09-22 |
| 100. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
117.53 |
0.9368 |
-0.0191 |
174 |
1 |
117.53 |
2008-09-26 |
| 101. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
116.84 |
0.9965 |
-0.0988 |
277 |
1 |
116.84 |
2011-10-23 |
| 102. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
116.84 |
0.9798 |
-0.0884 |
199 |
1 |
116.84 |
2008-11-04 |
| 103. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
116.51 |
0.9049 |
-0.0049 |
351 |
1 |
116.51 |
2008-09-23 |
| 104. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
116.46 |
0.9176 |
0.0154 |
365 |
1 |
116.46 |
2011-10-23 |
| 105. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
116.21 |
0.9398 |
-0.0383 |
419 |
1 |
116.21 |
2008-09-26 |
| 106. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
115.95 |
0.9635 |
-0.0679 |
389 |
1 |
115.95 |
2011-10-23 |
| 107. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
115.77 |
1.0167 |
-0.1211 |
378 |
1 |
115.77 |
2008-09-23 |
| 108. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
114.71 |
0.9084 |
-0.0237 |
404 |
1 |
114.71 |
2008-09-26 |
| 109. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
113.74 |
0.9351 |
-0.0676 |
190 |
1 |
113.74 |
2008-09-27 |
| 110. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
113.34 |
0.9128 |
-0.0014 |
369 |
1 |
113.34 |
2011-10-23 |
| 111. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
112.65 |
0.9234 |
-0.0535 |
346 |
1 |
112.65 |
2008-10-17 |
| 112. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
112.50 |
0.9213 |
-0.0575 |
295 |
1 |
112.50 |
2008-09-23 |
| 113. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
111.52 |
1.0073 |
-0.1436 |
369 |
1 |
111.52 |
2008-10-17 |
| 114. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
111.42 |
1.0289 |
-0.1696 |
276 |
1 |
111.42 |
2008-10-17 |
| 115. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
110.92 |
0.8890 |
-0.0416 |
199 |
1 |
110.92 |
2008-09-22 |
| 116. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
108.19 |
1.0426 |
-0.2135 |
323 |
1 |
108.19 |
2008-11-04 |
| 117. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
102.05 |
1.0390 |
-0.2608 |
205 |
1 |
102.05 |
2008-10-17 |
| 118. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
98.85 |
1.0109 |
-0.2531 |
276 |
1 |
98.85 |
2011-10-23 |
| 119. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
81.95 |
0.9567 |
-0.2891 |
184 |
1 |
81.95 |
2011-11-10 |