| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time. Honey, ... |
54.69 |
1.0578 |
0.2927 |
205 |
1 |
54.69 |
2022-02-17 |
| 2. |
I've seen it watching me, that misty thing without a face. I... |
51.38 |
0.8941 |
0.3747 |
110 |
1 |
51.38 |
2016-11-03 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
50.09 |
1.0714 |
0.1655 |
129 |
2 |
46.99 |
2009-04-19 |
| 4. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
49.56 |
1.0788 |
0.1450 |
171 |
1 |
49.56 |
2009-02-10 |
| 5. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
49.30 |
1.0263 |
0.1911 |
267 |
1 |
49.30 |
2011-03-08 |
| 6. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
49.21 |
0.9325 |
0.2827 |
156 |
1 |
49.21 |
2011-01-22 |
| 7. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
48.88 |
1.0205 |
0.1865 |
179 |
1 |
48.88 |
2009-12-06 |
| 8. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
48.86 |
0.9307 |
0.2758 |
246 |
1 |
48.86 |
2011-10-01 |
| 9. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
48.80 |
0.9688 |
0.2363 |
217 |
1 |
48.80 |
2011-10-15 |
| 10. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
47.04 |
1.0677 |
0.0939 |
284 |
1 |
47.04 |
2011-04-09 |
| 11. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
46.39 |
1.0197 |
0.1259 |
226 |
1 |
46.39 |
2011-03-24 |
| 12. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
46.33 |
1.0684 |
0.0757 |
253 |
1 |
46.33 |
2025-08-20 |
| 13. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
46.24 |
1.0240 |
0.1179 |
256 |
2 |
45.00 |
2011-10-15 |
| 14. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
46.18 |
0.9572 |
0.1832 |
201 |
1 |
46.18 |
2021-06-22 |
| 15. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
46.17 |
1.0972 |
0.0429 |
251 |
1 |
46.17 |
2025-08-20 |
| 16. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
45.95 |
1.0016 |
0.1331 |
218 |
1 |
45.95 |
2011-10-15 |
| 17. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.87 |
0.9899 |
0.1428 |
163 |
1 |
45.87 |
2011-03-19 |
| 18. |
I had a painting teacher once tell me that, the difference b... |
45.83 |
1.0362 |
0.0955 |
241 |
1 |
45.83 |
2021-06-25 |
| 19. |
Now I have a story that I'd like to tell about this guy, you... |
45.79 |
0.9889 |
0.1418 |
198 |
1 |
45.79 |
2022-01-16 |
| 20. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
45.42 |
0.8899 |
0.2317 |
293 |
1 |
45.42 |
2011-03-19 |
| 21. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
45.39 |
1.0516 |
0.0693 |
281 |
4 |
41.45 |
2010-10-14 |
| 22. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
45.31 |
1.0349 |
0.0840 |
234 |
1 |
45.31 |
2009-12-06 |
| 23. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
45.16 |
0.8773 |
0.2379 |
205 |
1 |
45.16 |
2022-01-16 |
| 24. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
44.67 |
0.9257 |
0.1774 |
317 |
1 |
44.67 |
2022-01-16 |
| 25. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
44.61 |
0.9532 |
0.1484 |
258 |
1 |
44.61 |
2011-03-24 |
| 26. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
44.27 |
1.0711 |
0.0221 |
213 |
2 |
42.43 |
2011-04-09 |
| 27. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
44.10 |
0.9430 |
0.1460 |
211 |
1 |
44.10 |
2013-03-19 |
| 28. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
44.07 |
1.0725 |
0.0158 |
233 |
3 |
41.82 |
2011-10-01 |
| 29. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
44.07 |
0.9851 |
0.1032 |
317 |
1 |
44.07 |
2011-10-15 |
| 30. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
44.05 |
1.0038 |
0.0840 |
237 |
1 |
44.05 |
2024-10-31 |
| 31. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
43.89 |
0.9893 |
0.0945 |
323 |
1 |
43.89 |
2021-06-22 |
| 32. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
43.82 |
0.9098 |
0.1723 |
167 |
1 |
43.82 |
2013-03-19 |
| 33. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
43.75 |
1.0331 |
0.0473 |
234 |
1 |
43.75 |
2009-01-26 |
| 34. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
43.67 |
0.9866 |
0.0918 |
218 |
1 |
43.67 |
2009-03-07 |
| 35. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
43.64 |
1.0444 |
0.0332 |
197 |
1 |
43.64 |
2009-01-04 |
| 36. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
43.47 |
1.0252 |
0.0482 |
176 |
1 |
43.47 |
2009-02-03 |
| 37. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
43.44 |
0.9769 |
0.0958 |
263 |
1 |
43.44 |
2009-11-13 |
| 38. |
The wheel of fortune goes spinning around. Will the arrow po... |
43.03 |
1.0207 |
0.0419 |
183 |
1 |
43.03 |
2024-10-31 |
| 39. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
43.03 |
0.8153 |
0.2473 |
200 |
2 |
41.85 |
2011-03-24 |
| 40. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
42.88 |
0.7890 |
0.2699 |
230 |
2 |
41.56 |
2011-02-08 |
| 41. |
I love the colorful clothes she wears and the way the sunlig... |
42.82 |
1.0217 |
0.0357 |
201 |
1 |
42.82 |
2021-06-22 |
| 42. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
42.68 |
0.8809 |
0.1730 |
127 |
1 |
42.68 |
2010-01-02 |
| 43. |
Even if there's only one actual truth, you can have two trut... |
42.65 |
1.0293 |
0.0239 |
284 |
1 |
42.65 |
2022-02-17 |
| 44. |
Darkness washed over the Dude. Darker than a black steer's t... |
42.49 |
0.9979 |
0.0513 |
115 |
1 |
42.49 |
2025-08-20 |
| 45. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
42.35 |
1.0261 |
0.0197 |
273 |
1 |
42.35 |
2011-11-14 |
| 46. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
42.28 |
0.9976 |
0.0465 |
174 |
1 |
42.28 |
2011-03-08 |
| 47. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
42.27 |
1.0232 |
0.0206 |
350 |
1 |
42.27 |
2011-02-26 |
| 48. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
42.26 |
0.9731 |
0.0705 |
129 |
1 |
42.26 |
2011-03-20 |
| 49. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
42.25 |
0.9068 |
0.1365 |
269 |
1 |
42.25 |
2011-03-08 |
| 50. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
42.07 |
0.9706 |
0.0683 |
216 |
1 |
42.07 |
2011-01-22 |
| 51. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
41.94 |
0.9633 |
0.0724 |
304 |
1 |
41.94 |
2021-06-22 |
| 52. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.91 |
0.9844 |
0.0505 |
293 |
1 |
41.91 |
2009-01-25 |
| 53. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.65 |
0.9171 |
0.1114 |
165 |
1 |
41.65 |
2009-02-15 |
| 54. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
41.63 |
1.0284 |
-0.0004 |
282 |
1 |
41.63 |
2010-05-16 |
| 55. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
41.45 |
0.8341 |
0.1895 |
224 |
1 |
41.45 |
2011-10-15 |
| 56. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
41.43 |
0.9281 |
0.0950 |
273 |
2 |
40.67 |
2010-02-21 |
| 57. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
41.43 |
1.0596 |
-0.0365 |
239 |
1 |
41.43 |
2009-02-15 |
| 58. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
41.20 |
0.9430 |
0.0744 |
297 |
1 |
41.20 |
2009-12-06 |
| 59. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
41.18 |
1.0463 |
-0.0294 |
182 |
1 |
41.18 |
2009-11-13 |
| 60. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
41.11 |
0.7877 |
0.2275 |
142 |
1 |
41.11 |
2011-03-18 |
| 61. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
41.08 |
0.8958 |
0.1186 |
322 |
1 |
41.08 |
2022-02-17 |
| 62. |
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no... |
41.07 |
1.0798 |
-0.0656 |
148 |
1 |
41.07 |
2021-06-22 |
| 63. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
41.05 |
1.0515 |
-0.0378 |
250 |
1 |
41.05 |
2011-07-26 |
| 64. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
41.05 |
1.0099 |
0.0038 |
207 |
2 |
40.26 |
2011-10-15 |
| 65. |
I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when ... |
40.98 |
1.0502 |
-0.0382 |
201 |
1 |
40.98 |
2025-08-20 |
| 66. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
40.90 |
1.0417 |
-0.0317 |
253 |
1 |
40.90 |
2009-02-15 |
| 67. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
40.86 |
1.0389 |
-0.0299 |
340 |
2 |
37.93 |
2011-03-16 |
| 68. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
40.83 |
0.9028 |
0.1055 |
111 |
1 |
40.83 |
2011-03-08 |
| 69. |
The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we en... |
40.71 |
1.0478 |
-0.0425 |
276 |
1 |
40.71 |
2025-08-20 |
| 70. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
40.50 |
0.8295 |
0.1706 |
209 |
1 |
40.50 |
2009-04-19 |
| 71. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
40.38 |
1.0251 |
-0.0280 |
261 |
3 |
37.81 |
2011-10-01 |
| 72. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
40.37 |
0.9540 |
0.0429 |
285 |
1 |
40.37 |
2009-02-01 |
| 73. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
40.36 |
1.0441 |
-0.0474 |
252 |
1 |
40.36 |
2009-02-08 |
| 74. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
40.13 |
1.0799 |
-0.0889 |
243 |
1 |
40.13 |
2009-02-10 |
| 75. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
40.05 |
1.0796 |
-0.0906 |
129 |
1 |
40.05 |
2009-01-06 |
| 76. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
40.04 |
1.0025 |
-0.0138 |
256 |
1 |
40.04 |
2009-11-13 |
| 77. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
39.99 |
1.0787 |
-0.0912 |
237 |
1 |
39.99 |
2009-02-13 |
| 78. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
39.97 |
0.8852 |
0.1018 |
201 |
1 |
39.97 |
2011-03-19 |
| 79. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
39.97 |
1.0213 |
-0.0343 |
240 |
1 |
39.97 |
2009-01-11 |
| 80. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
39.76 |
0.9226 |
0.0592 |
177 |
1 |
39.76 |
2009-02-15 |
| 81. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
39.75 |
0.9233 |
0.0583 |
168 |
1 |
39.75 |
2009-04-05 |
| 82. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
39.65 |
0.9729 |
0.0062 |
255 |
1 |
39.65 |
2009-02-12 |
| 83. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
39.62 |
1.0462 |
-0.0678 |
184 |
1 |
39.62 |
2009-01-06 |
| 84. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
39.51 |
0.9365 |
0.0392 |
248 |
1 |
39.51 |
2009-04-05 |
| 85. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
39.29 |
0.9597 |
0.0105 |
347 |
1 |
39.29 |
2009-02-08 |
| 86. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
39.25 |
1.0168 |
-0.0476 |
271 |
1 |
39.25 |
2009-11-08 |
| 87. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
39.20 |
1.0053 |
-0.0373 |
232 |
1 |
39.20 |
2011-10-01 |
| 88. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
39.09 |
0.9128 |
0.0525 |
369 |
1 |
39.09 |
2011-03-19 |
| 89. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
39.04 |
0.9811 |
-0.0170 |
272 |
1 |
39.04 |
2009-11-08 |
| 90. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
38.97 |
0.9855 |
-0.0232 |
258 |
1 |
38.97 |
2011-10-14 |
| 91. |
I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. D... |
38.87 |
1.0310 |
-0.0711 |
241 |
1 |
38.87 |
2021-06-25 |
| 92. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
38.85 |
0.8709 |
0.0885 |
202 |
1 |
38.85 |
2009-01-26 |
| 93. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
38.45 |
0.9286 |
0.0209 |
194 |
3 |
35.78 |
2011-02-26 |
| 94. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
38.40 |
0.9303 |
0.0180 |
176 |
1 |
38.40 |
2011-02-26 |
| 95. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
38.30 |
1.0034 |
-0.0576 |
302 |
1 |
38.30 |
2011-01-22 |
| 96. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
38.29 |
0.9871 |
-0.0416 |
227 |
1 |
38.29 |
2011-10-14 |
| 97. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
38.25 |
0.9576 |
-0.0131 |
212 |
1 |
38.25 |
2009-04-05 |
| 98. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
38.22 |
0.9964 |
-0.0526 |
203 |
1 |
38.22 |
2011-03-18 |
| 99. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
38.08 |
0.9411 |
-0.0008 |
318 |
1 |
38.08 |
2009-02-15 |
| 100. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
38.04 |
0.9125 |
0.0269 |
308 |
1 |
38.04 |
2009-02-01 |
| 101. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
38.00 |
0.9795 |
-0.0411 |
308 |
1 |
38.00 |
2009-11-13 |
| 102. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
37.90 |
0.8951 |
0.0408 |
193 |
1 |
37.90 |
2009-11-13 |
| 103. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
37.90 |
0.8845 |
0.0514 |
273 |
1 |
37.90 |
2011-03-08 |
| 104. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
37.85 |
0.9843 |
-0.0496 |
234 |
1 |
37.85 |
2010-04-04 |
| 105. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
37.70 |
0.9632 |
-0.0322 |
345 |
1 |
37.70 |
2025-08-20 |
| 106. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
37.61 |
0.9213 |
0.0074 |
295 |
1 |
37.61 |
2010-10-06 |
| 107. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
37.55 |
0.8821 |
0.0452 |
176 |
1 |
37.55 |
2010-01-02 |
| 108. |
Messes of men in farmer poverty; not much for monks but we p... |
37.33 |
0.9768 |
-0.0550 |
274 |
1 |
37.33 |
2021-06-22 |
| 109. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
37.33 |
0.8971 |
0.0247 |
266 |
2 |
36.72 |
2009-02-06 |
| 110. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
37.31 |
1.0270 |
-0.1057 |
255 |
1 |
37.31 |
2011-10-01 |
| 111. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
37.25 |
0.8573 |
0.0626 |
270 |
1 |
37.25 |
2011-08-12 |
| 112. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
37.16 |
0.9567 |
-0.0391 |
184 |
1 |
37.16 |
2010-01-02 |
| 113. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
37.09 |
1.0829 |
-0.1670 |
288 |
1 |
37.09 |
2009-01-18 |
| 114. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
37.02 |
1.0183 |
-0.1041 |
191 |
1 |
37.02 |
2009-11-13 |
| 115. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
37.00 |
0.9682 |
-0.0545 |
143 |
2 |
36.82 |
2011-02-08 |
| 116. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
36.98 |
0.8968 |
0.0164 |
186 |
1 |
36.98 |
2022-01-16 |
| 117. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
36.51 |
0.8562 |
0.0454 |
170 |
1 |
36.51 |
2011-03-19 |
| 118. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
35.96 |
0.9266 |
-0.0386 |
267 |
1 |
35.96 |
2011-02-26 |
| 119. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
35.41 |
1.0740 |
-0.1996 |
264 |
1 |
35.41 |
2010-01-02 |
| 120. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
35.10 |
0.9612 |
-0.0944 |
256 |
1 |
35.10 |
2009-01-07 |
| 121. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
34.92 |
0.9936 |
-0.1313 |
227 |
1 |
34.92 |
2024-10-31 |
| 122. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
34.55 |
0.9072 |
-0.0540 |
237 |
1 |
34.55 |
2010-01-02 |
| 123. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
34.02 |
0.8077 |
0.0324 |
167 |
1 |
34.02 |
2011-03-17 |
| 124. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
33.57 |
0.8890 |
-0.0600 |
199 |
1 |
33.57 |
2011-10-01 |
| 125. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
33.52 |
0.9873 |
-0.1596 |
155 |
1 |
33.52 |
2010-04-04 |
| 126. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
33.36 |
0.9665 |
-0.1427 |
326 |
1 |
33.36 |
2010-04-04 |
| 127. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
33.31 |
1.0109 |
-0.1883 |
276 |
1 |
33.31 |
2009-01-06 |
| 128. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
33.29 |
1.0033 |
-0.1812 |
189 |
1 |
33.29 |
2009-02-01 |
| 129. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
33.23 |
0.9429 |
-0.1223 |
287 |
1 |
33.23 |
2010-02-21 |
| 130. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
33.21 |
0.9529 |
-0.1328 |
269 |
1 |
33.21 |
2010-02-21 |
| 131. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
32.80 |
0.8105 |
-0.0005 |
204 |
1 |
32.80 |
2009-02-15 |
| 132. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
32.50 |
0.9045 |
-0.1019 |
235 |
1 |
32.50 |
2009-04-05 |
| 133. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
31.87 |
1.0090 |
-0.2220 |
282 |
1 |
31.87 |
2011-10-05 |
| 134. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
31.27 |
0.8770 |
-0.1048 |
300 |
1 |
31.27 |
2011-07-03 |
| 135. |
Boy, you can't get no higher than this. No, 'cause love don'... |
30.41 |
0.9874 |
-0.2365 |
94 |
1 |
30.41 |
2025-08-20 |
| 136. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
29.61 |
0.8154 |
-0.0842 |
193 |
1 |
29.61 |
2010-01-02 |
| 137. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
29.52 |
1.0203 |
-0.2913 |
261 |
1 |
29.52 |
2011-10-05 |
| 138. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
28.28 |
1.0483 |
-0.3500 |
227 |
1 |
28.28 |
2009-01-26 |