| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I ask him if quiz bowl has helped him in other areas of... |
89.79 |
1.0493 |
0.3502 |
150 |
1 |
89.79 |
2020-08-11 |
| 2. |
And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in... |
86.18 |
1.0863 |
0.2569 |
142 |
1 |
86.18 |
2019-11-06 |
| 3. |
It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead... |
84.35 |
1.0560 |
0.2587 |
279 |
1 |
84.35 |
2020-08-04 |
| 4. |
The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they... |
79.23 |
1.1150 |
0.1199 |
185 |
1 |
79.23 |
2019-12-12 |
| 5. |
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting... |
76.33 |
1.0942 |
0.0955 |
263 |
1 |
76.33 |
2020-08-04 |
| 6. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
75.99 |
1.0025 |
0.1819 |
256 |
1 |
75.99 |
2019-12-13 |
| 7. |
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them w... |
75.50 |
1.0752 |
0.1016 |
300 |
1 |
75.50 |
2019-10-31 |
| 8. |
Just let me wake up in the morning to the smell of new mown ... |
75.47 |
1.0814 |
0.0949 |
284 |
1 |
75.47 |
2019-11-03 |
| 9. |
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they ... |
75.45 |
1.0846 |
0.0914 |
365 |
1 |
75.45 |
2019-12-13 |
| 10. |
I'm not blind! I know exactly who he is. He is selfish and l... |
74.98 |
0.9565 |
0.2122 |
329 |
1 |
74.98 |
2019-11-05 |
| 11. |
Grown-ups like to tell you where they were when President Ke... |
74.06 |
0.9799 |
0.1744 |
404 |
1 |
74.06 |
2019-11-06 |
| 12. |
After living with you for the last six months, I'm turning i... |
73.72 |
0.9405 |
0.2085 |
165 |
1 |
73.72 |
2019-12-17 |
| 13. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
73.15 |
1.0993 |
0.0408 |
265 |
1 |
73.15 |
2019-10-31 |
| 14. |
Losing you would end my life you see, 'cause you mean that m... |
73.11 |
1.0471 |
0.0924 |
131 |
1 |
73.11 |
2020-02-16 |
| 15. |
Green is the sound the wind makes, rustling through the tree... |
73.09 |
1.0495 |
0.0897 |
292 |
1 |
73.09 |
2019-12-13 |
| 16. |
I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Au... |
72.30 |
0.9737 |
0.1532 |
204 |
1 |
72.30 |
2019-12-18 |
| 17. |
Chess is a mental exercise that can be pursued for its own s... |
72.24 |
0.9743 |
0.1517 |
469 |
1 |
72.24 |
2019-11-05 |
| 18. |
The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go t... |
72.08 |
1.0585 |
0.0650 |
280 |
1 |
72.08 |
2019-12-13 |
| 19. |
Oh I'm sure that's exactly what you want these people to bel... |
72.07 |
0.9817 |
0.1416 |
366 |
1 |
72.07 |
2019-12-13 |
| 20. |
Do you know, this morning, I was on a train that went throug... |
71.93 |
1.0266 |
0.0945 |
573 |
1 |
71.93 |
2019-12-13 |
| 21. |
The road is long with many a winding turn that leads us to w... |
71.59 |
1.0193 |
0.0965 |
152 |
1 |
71.59 |
2019-12-11 |
| 22. |
My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a sma... |
71.57 |
0.9522 |
0.1633 |
302 |
1 |
71.57 |
2020-09-02 |
| 23. |
Well, if some people get upset because they feel they have a... |
71.45 |
1.0461 |
0.0675 |
238 |
1 |
71.45 |
2019-11-03 |
| 24. |
I'm just going to turn through a few things. When we go out ... |
71.39 |
1.0934 |
0.0193 |
265 |
1 |
71.39 |
2020-09-02 |
| 25. |
I turned back, and perceived a vast opaque body between me a... |
71.34 |
0.9923 |
0.1196 |
308 |
1 |
71.34 |
2020-09-03 |
| 26. |
There was immediately a knock at the door and a man entered.... |
71.18 |
1.0607 |
0.0487 |
359 |
1 |
71.18 |
2023-06-15 |
| 27. |
It's getting harder and harder for me to return to my true f... |
70.82 |
1.0094 |
0.0944 |
248 |
1 |
70.82 |
2020-09-03 |
| 28. |
Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death... |
70.14 |
0.9581 |
0.1351 |
219 |
1 |
70.14 |
2019-11-04 |
| 29. |
You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've... |
70.01 |
0.9266 |
0.1646 |
276 |
1 |
70.01 |
2020-08-04 |
| 30. |
Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ig... |
69.74 |
0.9213 |
0.1657 |
274 |
1 |
69.74 |
2019-10-31 |
| 31. |
Every breath you take and every move you make, every bond yo... |
69.59 |
1.0545 |
0.0302 |
217 |
1 |
69.59 |
2019-11-03 |
| 32. |
And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into t... |
69.36 |
0.9927 |
0.0884 |
430 |
1 |
69.36 |
2019-11-05 |
| 33. |
Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. ... |
69.18 |
0.9873 |
0.0910 |
485 |
1 |
69.18 |
2019-11-05 |
| 34. |
Late in the afternoon of a day in the early part of last Dec... |
69.11 |
0.9618 |
0.1154 |
551 |
1 |
69.11 |
2020-08-04 |
| 35. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
69.09 |
0.8353 |
0.2416 |
283 |
1 |
69.09 |
2019-11-05 |
| 36. |
Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what... |
68.86 |
1.0574 |
0.0159 |
140 |
1 |
68.86 |
2020-09-03 |
| 37. |
When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and ... |
68.56 |
0.9588 |
0.1098 |
323 |
1 |
68.56 |
2019-11-05 |
| 38. |
When my son was born healthy, I never asked why. Why was I s... |
68.52 |
0.9186 |
0.1494 |
227 |
1 |
68.52 |
2020-02-16 |
| 39. |
And if you were prejudiced, you'd walk around thinking that ... |
67.71 |
1.0299 |
0.0254 |
209 |
1 |
67.71 |
2019-11-06 |
| 40. |
One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood... |
67.69 |
0.9253 |
0.1297 |
403 |
1 |
67.69 |
2019-12-15 |
| 41. |
Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differen... |
67.68 |
0.9933 |
0.0616 |
215 |
1 |
67.68 |
2019-11-05 |
| 42. |
Looking back I know of one opportunity where an engineer cam... |
67.12 |
1.0476 |
-0.0014 |
515 |
1 |
67.12 |
2019-11-06 |
| 43. |
Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the res... |
66.98 |
1.0368 |
0.0072 |
512 |
1 |
66.98 |
2019-12-13 |
| 44. |
The way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea, the mem... |
66.92 |
1.0382 |
0.0048 |
248 |
1 |
66.92 |
2019-10-31 |
| 45. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
66.76 |
1.0545 |
-0.0140 |
416 |
1 |
66.76 |
2019-11-11 |
| 46. |
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an esse... |
66.33 |
1.0218 |
0.0120 |
174 |
1 |
66.33 |
2019-12-10 |
| 47. |
The problem is, though, after the concert's over, no matter ... |
66.07 |
0.9562 |
0.0736 |
233 |
1 |
66.07 |
2019-10-31 |
| 48. |
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We r... |
66.03 |
0.9403 |
0.0889 |
330 |
1 |
66.03 |
2020-09-02 |
| 49. |
I looked at the captain. That terrible avenger, like an arch... |
66.03 |
0.9577 |
0.0715 |
326 |
1 |
66.03 |
2019-12-17 |
| 50. |
The study of global social phenomena raises several difficul... |
65.82 |
0.9502 |
0.0757 |
554 |
1 |
65.82 |
2020-09-03 |
| 51. |
Topology is generally considered to be one of the three linc... |
65.72 |
0.9023 |
0.1220 |
396 |
1 |
65.72 |
2019-12-17 |
| 52. |
Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority dri... |
65.64 |
0.9367 |
0.0864 |
235 |
1 |
65.64 |
2019-11-11 |
| 53. |
It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to ... |
65.41 |
1.0228 |
-0.0033 |
215 |
1 |
65.41 |
2019-12-13 |
| 54. |
Monday, 2:20 PM. This conundrum is burning a hole in my brai... |
65.32 |
0.8485 |
0.1696 |
351 |
1 |
65.32 |
2019-12-17 |
| 55. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
64.94 |
1.0272 |
-0.0150 |
405 |
1 |
64.94 |
2019-12-11 |
| 56. |
You know, it's funny what a young man recollects. 'Cause I d... |
64.84 |
0.9618 |
0.0488 |
294 |
1 |
64.84 |
2019-12-13 |
| 57. |
Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. T... |
64.73 |
0.9634 |
0.0455 |
210 |
1 |
64.73 |
2019-11-06 |
| 58. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
64.42 |
1.0577 |
-0.0536 |
247 |
1 |
64.42 |
2019-12-13 |
| 59. |
Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express ... |
64.30 |
0.9933 |
0.0089 |
246 |
1 |
64.30 |
2020-08-04 |
| 60. |
We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a c... |
64.25 |
0.9291 |
0.0723 |
303 |
1 |
64.25 |
2019-12-12 |
| 61. |
Fangs are very rarely mentioned in the literature; they're m... |
64.18 |
0.9704 |
0.0299 |
254 |
1 |
64.18 |
2019-11-04 |
| 62. |
But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that e... |
64.17 |
1.0676 |
-0.0674 |
213 |
1 |
64.17 |
2020-08-04 |
| 63. |
Well that is where we are. You say we are on the brink of de... |
64.04 |
1.0653 |
-0.0672 |
259 |
1 |
64.04 |
2020-08-11 |
| 64. |
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and ... |
63.84 |
1.0467 |
-0.0517 |
276 |
1 |
63.84 |
2020-09-03 |
| 65. |
Mankind continues to fight, but it is a desperate fight to s... |
63.65 |
0.9432 |
0.0489 |
283 |
1 |
63.65 |
2019-10-31 |
| 66. |
My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how... |
63.53 |
0.9230 |
0.0672 |
183 |
1 |
63.53 |
2019-05-18 |
| 67. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
63.44 |
1.0095 |
-0.0207 |
316 |
1 |
63.44 |
2019-12-13 |
| 68. |
Music, you know, true music - not just rock 'n' roll - it ch... |
63.41 |
0.8955 |
0.0928 |
264 |
1 |
63.41 |
2019-11-04 |
| 69. |
Sometimes all I want to do is head west on twenty in a car I... |
63.18 |
0.9754 |
0.0093 |
131 |
1 |
63.18 |
2019-03-01 |
| 70. |
Our mission was called "a successful failure," in that we re... |
63.14 |
0.9104 |
0.0737 |
371 |
1 |
63.14 |
2019-11-06 |
| 71. |
The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down ... |
63.05 |
0.9909 |
-0.0082 |
585 |
1 |
63.05 |
2019-12-17 |
| 72. |
Well we've never done a day's work in our life and our recor... |
62.89 |
0.9614 |
0.0188 |
236 |
1 |
62.89 |
2020-02-16 |
| 73. |
Listen carefully, my friend. You are stuck in a paradox. It ... |
62.79 |
1.0419 |
-0.0632 |
242 |
1 |
62.79 |
2020-09-03 |
| 74. |
The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want ... |
62.69 |
1.0319 |
-0.0548 |
215 |
1 |
62.69 |
2019-11-04 |
| 75. |
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm... |
62.69 |
0.9512 |
0.0259 |
145 |
1 |
62.69 |
2019-11-04 |
| 76. |
We found our way back to the city we came from. 'Cause I loo... |
62.56 |
0.9562 |
0.0189 |
217 |
1 |
62.56 |
2020-08-11 |
| 77. |
No, I don't want to debate about it, if you're not over here... |
62.39 |
0.9716 |
0.0008 |
165 |
1 |
62.39 |
2019-11-04 |
| 78. |
Skin against skin, blood and bone, you're all by yourself bu... |
62.32 |
0.9629 |
0.0084 |
148 |
1 |
62.32 |
2020-08-04 |
| 79. |
Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used ... |
61.83 |
0.9650 |
-0.0013 |
154 |
2 |
52.00 |
2020-02-16 |
| 80. |
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't wa... |
61.74 |
1.0049 |
-0.0426 |
231 |
1 |
61.74 |
2019-12-13 |
| 81. |
I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed ... |
61.59 |
0.9371 |
0.0229 |
579 |
1 |
61.59 |
2019-11-05 |
| 82. |
The math is compelling. Most of the people in the world are ... |
61.58 |
1.0321 |
-0.0723 |
343 |
1 |
61.58 |
2019-12-13 |
| 83. |
I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had... |
61.49 |
0.9873 |
-0.0289 |
354 |
1 |
61.49 |
2019-10-31 |
| 84. |
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is... |
61.45 |
0.9366 |
0.0212 |
229 |
1 |
61.45 |
2020-02-18 |
| 85. |
I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions... |
61.27 |
0.9367 |
0.0183 |
474 |
1 |
61.27 |
2019-12-10 |
| 86. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
61.27 |
1.0445 |
-0.0895 |
373 |
1 |
61.27 |
2019-12-11 |
| 87. |
Esteban stood at the front of the room, staring at the page.... |
61.21 |
1.0518 |
-0.0978 |
327 |
1 |
61.21 |
2019-11-05 |
| 88. |
Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again!... |
61.11 |
0.9276 |
0.0249 |
269 |
1 |
61.11 |
2019-11-04 |
| 89. |
I'm always worried maybe people aren't going to like me when... |
61.09 |
0.9704 |
-0.0182 |
314 |
1 |
61.09 |
2019-11-06 |
| 90. |
The old sea captain, not surprisingly, was an excellent witn... |
60.95 |
0.9211 |
0.0289 |
169 |
1 |
60.95 |
2019-12-13 |
| 91. |
Most sociologists and anthropologists agree on the definitio... |
60.13 |
0.8940 |
0.0432 |
424 |
1 |
60.13 |
2019-12-11 |
| 92. |
We're living on borrowed time here. Every minute of our life... |
59.62 |
1.0254 |
-0.0961 |
270 |
1 |
59.62 |
2019-12-13 |
| 93. |
Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs t... |
59.11 |
0.9392 |
-0.0179 |
221 |
1 |
59.11 |
2020-09-02 |
| 94. |
My old man back in Chicago, when I was a kid... He used to l... |
58.67 |
0.9675 |
-0.0531 |
350 |
1 |
58.67 |
2019-12-17 |
| 95. |
Scratch the surface of any champion in any individual sport,... |
58.44 |
0.9526 |
-0.0417 |
197 |
1 |
58.44 |
2019-11-04 |
| 96. |
In 12th-century Pisa, Italy, the construction firm of Morrel... |
58.27 |
0.8982 |
0.0100 |
219 |
1 |
58.27 |
2019-12-13 |
| 97. |
Rory, sorry to interrupt. Hi, Henry. But see, we're all stan... |
58.25 |
0.9577 |
-0.0498 |
460 |
1 |
58.25 |
2019-12-17 |
| 98. |
You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has... |
58.25 |
0.8847 |
0.0232 |
485 |
1 |
58.25 |
2019-12-13 |
| 99. |
The Western States nervous under the beginning change. Texas... |
58.03 |
0.8939 |
0.0106 |
327 |
1 |
58.03 |
2019-12-10 |
| 100. |
Aight, look, I know you're not earning what you expected and... |
57.95 |
0.9106 |
-0.0074 |
168 |
1 |
57.95 |
2019-12-13 |
| 101. |
I was the East Coast distributor of "involved." I ate it, dr... |
57.80 |
0.8970 |
0.0039 |
351 |
1 |
57.80 |
2019-12-13 |
| 102. |
After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did... |
57.68 |
0.9408 |
-0.0418 |
427 |
1 |
57.68 |
2019-12-11 |
| 103. |
Mr. Chairperson, I'd like to report to the task force on a v... |
57.55 |
0.8963 |
0.0007 |
405 |
1 |
57.55 |
2019-11-04 |
| 104. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
57.26 |
0.9881 |
-0.0956 |
424 |
1 |
57.26 |
2020-08-11 |
| 105. |
It's a praying mantis. Do you know how they mate? The male w... |
57.18 |
1.0283 |
-0.1371 |
226 |
1 |
57.18 |
2019-12-11 |
| 106. |
Directories contain elements that describe objects in the wo... |
57.17 |
0.9852 |
-0.0941 |
216 |
1 |
57.17 |
2019-12-11 |
| 107. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
57.14 |
1.0506 |
-0.1600 |
277 |
1 |
57.14 |
2020-08-11 |
| 108. |
Your father's light saber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knig... |
57.08 |
0.9227 |
-0.0330 |
300 |
1 |
57.08 |
2019-12-17 |
| 109. |
Fred pulled back and steered the nose of the plane into the ... |
56.79 |
1.0174 |
-0.1323 |
197 |
1 |
56.79 |
2019-12-17 |
| 110. |
When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (... |
56.45 |
0.9300 |
-0.0502 |
271 |
1 |
56.45 |
2019-12-12 |
| 111. |
War! The Republic is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless... |
55.57 |
0.8452 |
0.0209 |
478 |
1 |
55.57 |
2019-10-31 |
| 112. |
There's an old saying my late grandma taught me. When you're... |
54.99 |
0.9187 |
-0.0616 |
262 |
1 |
54.99 |
2020-02-16 |
| 113. |
The dude has a photographic memory. Every time he thinks he ... |
54.75 |
0.9438 |
-0.0905 |
178 |
1 |
54.75 |
2019-12-11 |
| 114. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
54.62 |
0.9128 |
-0.0615 |
369 |
1 |
54.62 |
2019-11-04 |
| 115. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
54.39 |
0.8595 |
-0.0118 |
242 |
1 |
54.39 |
2020-08-04 |
| 116. |
A spaceship from another star. They ask me where all the peo... |
53.71 |
1.0141 |
-0.1770 |
186 |
1 |
53.71 |
2019-11-03 |
| 117. |
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come. Corpora... |
53.34 |
0.8851 |
-0.0537 |
381 |
1 |
53.34 |
2019-11-03 |
| 118. |
The fourth floor is awful! The DMV, Divorce Filings, Probati... |
53.05 |
0.8787 |
-0.0518 |
233 |
1 |
53.05 |
2020-02-18 |
| 119. |
Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express... |
51.75 |
0.9484 |
-0.1418 |
181 |
1 |
51.75 |
2020-08-04 |
| 120. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
51.29 |
0.9570 |
-0.1576 |
287 |
1 |
51.29 |
2019-12-12 |
| 121. |
Good morning, Vietnam! Hey, this is not a test. This is rock... |
50.38 |
0.8619 |
-0.0767 |
173 |
1 |
50.38 |
2019-12-11 |
| 122. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
50.13 |
0.8775 |
-0.0962 |
443 |
1 |
50.13 |
2019-12-12 |
| 123. |
"My stomach's full of butterflies!" lamented Dora Diller. He... |
49.02 |
0.7133 |
0.0507 |
121 |
1 |
49.02 |
2020-09-03 |
| 124. |
What I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally,... |
46.88 |
1.0007 |
-0.2700 |
389 |
1 |
46.88 |
2019-12-12 |
| 125. |
So I go about my day as normal. But I can't seem to pass it ... |
41.41 |
1.0174 |
-0.3720 |
394 |
1 |
41.41 |
2019-11-04 |