| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
150.45 |
1.0334 |
0.1711 |
131 |
1 |
150.45 |
2009-04-10 |
| 2. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
143.65 |
1.0297 |
0.1247 |
249 |
2 |
133.41 |
2009-04-05 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
143.00 |
1.0796 |
0.0653 |
129 |
1 |
143.00 |
2009-04-12 |
| 4. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
142.86 |
1.0389 |
0.1128 |
340 |
1 |
142.86 |
2009-03-28 |
| 5. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
142.72 |
1.0829 |
0.0666 |
288 |
1 |
142.72 |
2009-02-22 |
| 6. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
141.55 |
1.0483 |
0.0870 |
227 |
5 |
127.85 |
2009-04-11 |
| 7. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
141.28 |
1.0462 |
0.0842 |
184 |
3 |
135.82 |
2009-04-05 |
| 8. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
136.80 |
1.0419 |
0.0577 |
261 |
2 |
125.92 |
2009-04-08 |
| 9. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
134.88 |
1.0596 |
0.0224 |
239 |
1 |
134.88 |
2009-03-01 |
| 10. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
134.57 |
1.0168 |
0.0667 |
271 |
2 |
128.22 |
2009-04-03 |
| 11. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
134.08 |
1.0534 |
0.0270 |
357 |
2 |
124.81 |
2009-02-23 |
| 12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
133.48 |
1.0595 |
0.0160 |
379 |
2 |
126.79 |
2009-04-12 |
| 13. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
132.94 |
0.9857 |
0.0818 |
293 |
3 |
127.21 |
2009-04-08 |
| 14. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
132.38 |
0.9785 |
0.0885 |
335 |
1 |
132.38 |
2009-04-05 |
| 15. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
132.01 |
1.0619 |
0.0030 |
354 |
3 |
128.21 |
2009-03-29 |
| 16. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
131.96 |
1.0165 |
0.0480 |
392 |
3 |
128.12 |
2009-04-12 |
| 17. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
131.75 |
1.0528 |
0.0014 |
201 |
1 |
131.75 |
2009-03-27 |
| 18. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
131.48 |
0.9754 |
0.0873 |
362 |
1 |
131.48 |
2009-02-23 |
| 19. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
130.22 |
1.0213 |
0.0220 |
240 |
1 |
130.22 |
2009-02-22 |
| 20. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
129.86 |
0.9593 |
0.0889 |
398 |
1 |
129.86 |
2009-02-23 |
| 21. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
129.45 |
1.0429 |
-0.0043 |
259 |
2 |
124.48 |
2009-04-08 |
| 22. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
129.08 |
0.9578 |
0.0792 |
281 |
1 |
129.08 |
2009-03-28 |
| 23. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
127.67 |
0.9684 |
0.0598 |
388 |
3 |
121.72 |
2009-03-27 |
| 24. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
126.69 |
1.0201 |
-0.0018 |
303 |
1 |
126.69 |
2009-04-03 |
| 25. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
126.56 |
0.9966 |
0.0196 |
259 |
2 |
126.36 |
2009-04-11 |
| 26. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
126.55 |
1.1114 |
-0.0977 |
247 |
1 |
126.55 |
2009-02-23 |
| 27. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
126.44 |
0.9884 |
0.0268 |
233 |
3 |
121.42 |
2009-03-27 |
| 28. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
126.26 |
1.0788 |
-0.0703 |
171 |
1 |
126.26 |
2009-02-23 |
| 29. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
126.23 |
1.0390 |
-0.0288 |
205 |
2 |
118.37 |
2009-06-05 |
| 30. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
125.91 |
0.9936 |
0.0176 |
311 |
1 |
125.91 |
2009-02-22 |
| 31. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
125.70 |
0.9464 |
0.0686 |
323 |
1 |
125.70 |
2009-03-27 |
| 32. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
125.48 |
1.0296 |
-0.0152 |
437 |
1 |
125.48 |
2009-03-29 |
| 33. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
125.23 |
1.0349 |
-0.0302 |
234 |
1 |
125.23 |
2009-02-24 |
| 34. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
125.23 |
1.0368 |
-0.0304 |
276 |
2 |
120.51 |
2009-04-12 |
| 35. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
125.21 |
1.0799 |
-0.0780 |
243 |
1 |
125.21 |
2009-02-23 |
| 36. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
124.95 |
1.0496 |
-0.0468 |
314 |
2 |
122.62 |
2009-02-22 |
| 37. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
124.55 |
0.9710 |
0.0229 |
173 |
1 |
124.55 |
2009-03-29 |
| 38. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
124.45 |
0.9376 |
0.0673 |
367 |
1 |
124.45 |
2009-04-12 |
| 39. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
124.38 |
1.0613 |
-0.0569 |
456 |
1 |
124.38 |
2009-02-23 |
| 40. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
123.89 |
0.9699 |
0.0241 |
269 |
1 |
123.89 |
2009-04-08 |
| 41. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
123.03 |
1.0109 |
-0.0225 |
276 |
1 |
123.03 |
2009-04-12 |
| 42. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
122.15 |
0.9309 |
0.0479 |
284 |
1 |
122.15 |
2009-04-08 |
| 43. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
122.08 |
0.9841 |
0.0001 |
334 |
1 |
122.08 |
2009-02-22 |
| 44. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
121.52 |
0.9740 |
-0.0026 |
209 |
2 |
118.55 |
2009-04-10 |
| 45. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
121.48 |
1.0399 |
-0.0592 |
294 |
1 |
121.48 |
2009-02-23 |
| 46. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
121.42 |
0.9763 |
-0.0021 |
289 |
1 |
121.42 |
2009-04-11 |
| 47. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
121.29 |
0.8947 |
0.0842 |
366 |
1 |
121.29 |
2009-02-23 |
| 48. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
121.28 |
1.0167 |
-0.0360 |
378 |
1 |
121.28 |
2009-02-22 |
| 49. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
121.22 |
1.0292 |
-0.0575 |
262 |
1 |
121.22 |
2009-02-22 |
| 50. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
121.20 |
1.0183 |
-0.0507 |
191 |
1 |
121.20 |
2009-02-24 |
| 51. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
121.10 |
0.9430 |
0.0220 |
211 |
1 |
121.10 |
2009-02-23 |
| 52. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
121.06 |
0.9946 |
-0.0227 |
246 |
1 |
121.06 |
2009-02-24 |
| 53. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
120.96 |
0.9365 |
0.0361 |
248 |
2 |
118.86 |
2009-04-12 |
| 54. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
120.86 |
0.9045 |
0.0664 |
235 |
1 |
120.86 |
2009-02-23 |
| 55. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
120.31 |
1.0529 |
-0.0872 |
351 |
1 |
120.31 |
2009-03-27 |
| 56. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
119.99 |
0.9202 |
0.0428 |
254 |
1 |
119.99 |
2009-03-29 |
| 57. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
119.60 |
0.9723 |
-0.0082 |
364 |
1 |
119.60 |
2009-04-05 |
| 58. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
119.34 |
0.9879 |
-0.0210 |
450 |
1 |
119.34 |
2009-03-02 |
| 59. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
119.24 |
1.0711 |
-0.1193 |
213 |
1 |
119.24 |
2009-03-02 |
| 60. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
119.18 |
1.0201 |
-0.0595 |
375 |
2 |
116.08 |
2009-04-03 |
| 61. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
119.18 |
0.9886 |
-0.0296 |
220 |
1 |
119.18 |
2009-03-27 |
| 62. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
118.27 |
0.9164 |
0.0380 |
305 |
1 |
118.27 |
2009-03-01 |
| 63. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
118.16 |
0.9636 |
-0.0157 |
254 |
1 |
118.16 |
2009-02-23 |
| 64. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
117.48 |
0.9072 |
0.0335 |
237 |
1 |
117.48 |
2009-03-28 |
| 65. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
117.35 |
1.0613 |
-0.1187 |
266 |
1 |
117.35 |
2009-03-27 |
| 66. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
117.25 |
1.0441 |
-0.1020 |
252 |
1 |
117.25 |
2009-02-23 |
| 67. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
117.20 |
1.0099 |
-0.0726 |
207 |
1 |
117.20 |
2009-02-24 |
| 68. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
117.19 |
1.0004 |
-0.0662 |
212 |
1 |
117.19 |
2009-02-24 |
| 69. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
117.15 |
1.0218 |
-0.0846 |
268 |
1 |
117.15 |
2009-02-24 |
| 70. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
117.05 |
1.0666 |
-0.1270 |
297 |
1 |
117.05 |
2009-03-27 |
| 71. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
116.89 |
1.0523 |
-0.1186 |
256 |
1 |
116.89 |
2009-02-23 |
| 72. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
116.43 |
1.0016 |
-0.0722 |
218 |
1 |
116.43 |
2009-03-01 |
| 73. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
116.32 |
1.0214 |
-0.0896 |
269 |
1 |
116.32 |
2009-02-23 |
| 74. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
116.00 |
0.8553 |
0.0705 |
174 |
1 |
116.00 |
2009-03-27 |
| 75. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
115.71 |
1.0396 |
-0.1185 |
149 |
1 |
115.71 |
2009-02-23 |
| 76. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
115.55 |
0.9553 |
-0.0210 |
430 |
1 |
115.55 |
2009-03-27 |
| 77. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
114.83 |
0.9649 |
-0.0446 |
193 |
1 |
114.83 |
2009-03-27 |
| 78. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
114.80 |
0.9897 |
-0.0711 |
274 |
1 |
114.80 |
2009-02-23 |
| 79. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
114.77 |
0.9570 |
-0.0346 |
287 |
1 |
114.77 |
2009-03-29 |
| 80. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
114.71 |
0.9942 |
-0.0654 |
483 |
1 |
114.71 |
2009-03-28 |
| 81. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
114.45 |
1.0486 |
-0.1298 |
289 |
1 |
114.45 |
2009-04-08 |
| 82. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
114.01 |
1.0515 |
-0.1390 |
250 |
1 |
114.01 |
2009-02-24 |
| 83. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
113.89 |
0.9852 |
-0.0713 |
264 |
1 |
113.89 |
2009-02-23 |
| 84. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
113.32 |
1.0125 |
-0.1062 |
224 |
1 |
113.32 |
2009-06-05 |
| 85. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
113.09 |
0.9756 |
-0.0699 |
229 |
1 |
113.09 |
2009-02-23 |
| 86. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
112.95 |
0.9786 |
-0.0779 |
193 |
1 |
112.95 |
2009-04-08 |
| 87. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
112.70 |
1.0555 |
-0.1501 |
363 |
1 |
112.70 |
2009-04-10 |
| 88. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
112.55 |
1.0316 |
-0.1250 |
333 |
1 |
112.55 |
2009-02-24 |
| 89. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
111.94 |
1.0398 |
-0.1530 |
110 |
1 |
111.94 |
2009-03-02 |
| 90. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
111.83 |
0.9532 |
-0.0578 |
258 |
1 |
111.83 |
2009-02-23 |
| 91. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
111.74 |
1.0565 |
-0.1634 |
247 |
1 |
111.74 |
2009-02-23 |
| 92. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
109.23 |
0.9213 |
-0.0449 |
295 |
1 |
109.23 |
2009-04-12 |
| 93. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
108.21 |
0.8961 |
-0.0321 |
189 |
1 |
108.21 |
2009-02-24 |
| 94. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
107.10 |
0.9527 |
-0.0942 |
251 |
1 |
107.10 |
2009-02-23 |
| 95. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
106.21 |
1.0124 |
-0.1639 |
204 |
1 |
106.21 |
2009-03-27 |