| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back. Well... |
82.46 |
1.0924 |
0.8442 |
225 |
1 |
82.46 |
2021-12-20 |
| 2. |
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop bei... |
79.77 |
1.1053 |
0.7647 |
284 |
1 |
79.77 |
2021-12-20 |
| 3. |
I am Dracula and I welcome you to my house. I must apologize... |
77.92 |
0.9983 |
0.8059 |
152 |
1 |
77.92 |
2021-12-28 |
| 4. |
I want to leave my footprints in the sands of time. Know the... |
77.53 |
1.1101 |
0.7103 |
235 |
1 |
77.53 |
2021-12-20 |
| 5. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
72.14 |
1.0885 |
0.6020 |
315 |
1 |
72.14 |
2021-12-20 |
| 6. |
And you can fly high as a kite if you want to, faster than l... |
71.66 |
1.0905 |
0.5866 |
147 |
1 |
71.66 |
2022-01-02 |
| 7. |
I don't know what you're talking about. I don't agree with w... |
71.59 |
1.0314 |
0.6450 |
186 |
1 |
71.59 |
2021-12-20 |
| 8. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
69.37 |
0.9368 |
0.6852 |
173 |
1 |
69.37 |
2021-12-20 |
| 9. |
The breath of the morning, I keep forgetting the smell of th... |
68.25 |
1.0382 |
0.5582 |
353 |
1 |
68.25 |
2021-12-20 |
| 10. |
My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract f... |
68.03 |
1.0070 |
0.5860 |
205 |
1 |
68.03 |
2021-12-20 |
| 11. |
Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through... |
66.96 |
1.0956 |
0.4739 |
160 |
1 |
66.96 |
2021-12-28 |
| 12. |
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end unt... |
66.41 |
1.0350 |
0.5221 |
405 |
1 |
66.41 |
2021-12-28 |
| 13. |
The single most important thing you can do to achieve financ... |
65.65 |
1.0205 |
0.5063 |
148 |
1 |
65.65 |
2021-12-20 |
| 14. |
As incredible as it may sound, once radio had been invented,... |
65.41 |
1.0359 |
0.4900 |
292 |
1 |
65.41 |
2021-12-20 |
| 15. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
64.91 |
1.0328 |
0.5205 |
356 |
1 |
64.91 |
2021-12-28 |
| 16. |
The firm-foundation theory argues that each investment instr... |
56.78 |
1.0514 |
0.3327 |
257 |
1 |
56.78 |
2021-12-20 |
| 17. |
This used to be my playground, this used to be my childhood ... |
54.54 |
1.0209 |
0.2419 |
161 |
1 |
54.54 |
2020-11-10 |
| 18. |
So they stood at the edge of the woods while all the other k... |
53.47 |
1.0182 |
0.2206 |
177 |
2 |
49.94 |
2020-11-07 |
| 19. |
When has anyone ever told me I had the right to stop it all ... |
52.98 |
1.0947 |
0.1379 |
122 |
1 |
52.98 |
2020-11-07 |
| 20. |
I'm going to kill a stranger, so don't you be a stranger. |
52.56 |
0.9038 |
0.3252 |
57 |
1 |
52.56 |
2020-11-04 |
| 21. |
What I really lived for were those evenings when you were al... |
52.19 |
1.0708 |
0.1276 |
199 |
1 |
52.19 |
2020-11-07 |
| 22. |
I would never want to belong to any club that would have som... |
51.44 |
1.0982 |
0.1086 |
164 |
1 |
51.44 |
2020-11-03 |
| 23. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
49.22 |
1.0523 |
0.0958 |
256 |
1 |
49.22 |
2020-11-07 |
| 24. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
48.35 |
1.0331 |
0.0940 |
234 |
2 |
44.09 |
2020-11-10 |
| 25. |
Late night watching television. But how'd we get in this pos... |
48.21 |
0.9621 |
0.1572 |
202 |
1 |
48.21 |
2020-11-10 |
| 26. |
The poor man determined to find another home, hoping that wh... |
48.07 |
1.0296 |
0.0690 |
129 |
1 |
48.07 |
2020-11-04 |
| 27. |
There are places I'll remember all my life, though some have... |
46.96 |
1.0694 |
0.0278 |
211 |
1 |
46.96 |
2020-11-04 |
| 28. |
With all due respect ma'am, I'm done wasting my breath on yo... |
46.94 |
1.0207 |
0.0743 |
228 |
1 |
46.94 |
2020-11-04 |
| 29. |
If one has only one good memory left in one's heart, that ma... |
46.92 |
0.9445 |
0.1352 |
97 |
1 |
46.92 |
2020-11-04 |
| 30. |
Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this li... |
46.04 |
1.0668 |
0.0003 |
279 |
1 |
46.04 |
2020-11-07 |
| 31. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
45.60 |
1.0714 |
-0.0107 |
129 |
1 |
45.60 |
2020-11-04 |
| 32. |
I called Betsy again at her office and she said maybe we'd g... |
45.28 |
1.0338 |
0.0244 |
201 |
1 |
45.28 |
2020-11-04 |
| 33. |
It won't always go your way, so you can't get trapped in thi... |
45.27 |
1.0194 |
0.0350 |
290 |
1 |
45.27 |
2020-11-06 |
| 34. |
The devil found a clever way to infiltrate and bring his man... |
44.52 |
0.9613 |
0.0775 |
313 |
1 |
44.52 |
2020-11-03 |
| 35. |
We live in a strange and wonderful universe. Its age, size, ... |
44.43 |
0.9391 |
0.0919 |
273 |
1 |
44.43 |
2020-11-07 |
| 36. |
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.... |
44.41 |
1.0635 |
-0.0299 |
208 |
1 |
44.41 |
2020-11-04 |
| 37. |
Braising meats and vegetables means to brown them first in a... |
44.00 |
1.0140 |
0.0157 |
344 |
1 |
44.00 |
2020-11-10 |
| 38. |
He really had been through death, but he had returned becaus... |
43.92 |
0.9572 |
0.0333 |
93 |
1 |
43.92 |
2020-11-03 |
| 39. |
They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to f... |
43.82 |
0.9867 |
0.0010 |
137 |
1 |
43.82 |
2020-11-03 |
| 40. |
As I experience certain sensory input patterns my mental pat... |
43.80 |
0.9121 |
0.1087 |
160 |
1 |
43.80 |
2020-11-03 |
| 41. |
Oh... and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter?... |
43.60 |
1.0232 |
-0.0056 |
222 |
1 |
43.60 |
2020-11-03 |
| 42. |
It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead... |
43.25 |
1.0560 |
-0.0475 |
279 |
1 |
43.25 |
2020-11-04 |
| 43. |
And, anyway, it's not about making money, it's about taking ... |
43.24 |
1.0091 |
0.0003 |
172 |
1 |
43.24 |
2020-11-04 |
| 44. |
Harvey and I sit in the bars... have a drink or two... play ... |
43.11 |
0.9513 |
0.0509 |
238 |
1 |
43.11 |
2020-11-04 |
| 45. |
Every once in a while, a book comes along that fundamentally... |
42.76 |
0.9959 |
-0.0315 |
98 |
1 |
42.76 |
2020-11-02 |
| 46. |
Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb ... |
42.31 |
1.0245 |
-0.0397 |
252 |
1 |
42.31 |
2020-11-07 |
| 47. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
42.25 |
0.9316 |
0.0559 |
287 |
1 |
42.25 |
2020-11-03 |
| 48. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
42.17 |
1.0417 |
-0.0590 |
253 |
1 |
42.17 |
2020-11-04 |
| 49. |
Only the silent, sleepy, staring houses in the backwoods can... |
42.00 |
1.0481 |
-0.0675 |
309 |
1 |
42.00 |
2020-11-02 |
| 50. |
From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the a... |
41.79 |
0.8783 |
0.0860 |
100 |
1 |
41.79 |
2020-11-04 |
| 51. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
41.55 |
0.9772 |
-0.0089 |
217 |
1 |
41.55 |
2020-11-03 |
| 52. |
We are one, but we are many. And from all the lands on earth... |
41.40 |
0.9143 |
0.0420 |
150 |
1 |
41.40 |
2020-11-07 |
| 53. |
What a fool you are. I'm a god, how can you kill a god? What... |
41.33 |
0.9574 |
-0.0005 |
255 |
1 |
41.33 |
2020-11-07 |
| 54. |
I can see a new horizon underneath the blazing sky. I'll be ... |
41.27 |
0.8590 |
0.0965 |
103 |
1 |
41.27 |
2020-11-03 |
| 55. |
The night is bitter, the stars have lost their glitter, the ... |
41.20 |
1.0701 |
-0.1165 |
242 |
1 |
41.20 |
2020-11-04 |
| 56. |
No battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field o... |
41.13 |
0.9937 |
-0.0369 |
159 |
1 |
41.13 |
2020-11-04 |
| 57. |
You tell me exactly what you want, and I will very carefully... |
41.13 |
0.9200 |
0.0359 |
93 |
1 |
41.13 |
2020-11-03 |
| 58. |
Of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us, for the... |
40.85 |
0.9951 |
-0.0484 |
200 |
1 |
40.85 |
2020-11-07 |
| 59. |
The following year, I left home to live in the school dormit... |
40.84 |
0.9806 |
-0.0342 |
278 |
1 |
40.84 |
2020-11-04 |
| 60. |
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelli... |
40.83 |
1.0567 |
-0.1023 |
199 |
1 |
40.83 |
2020-11-03 |
| 61. |
Seriously, it should have been more dramatic. His brain ough... |
40.69 |
0.9607 |
-0.0150 |
180 |
1 |
40.69 |
2020-11-05 |
| 62. |
The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the f... |
40.59 |
0.9937 |
-0.0732 |
107 |
1 |
40.59 |
2020-11-03 |
| 63. |
Attention captive test subjects! The Institute for Mad Scien... |
40.41 |
0.9106 |
0.0314 |
217 |
1 |
40.41 |
2020-11-04 |
| 64. |
One day she left without a word, she took away the sun. And ... |
40.31 |
1.0658 |
-0.1266 |
170 |
1 |
40.31 |
2020-11-03 |
| 65. |
Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst te... |
40.06 |
1.0216 |
-0.1128 |
283 |
1 |
40.06 |
2020-11-03 |
| 66. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
39.91 |
1.0684 |
-0.1081 |
253 |
1 |
39.91 |
2020-11-04 |
| 67. |
We get some complaints about this swimming obstacle because ... |
39.69 |
0.8905 |
0.0318 |
162 |
1 |
39.69 |
2020-11-04 |
| 68. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
39.65 |
1.0529 |
-0.1285 |
351 |
1 |
39.65 |
2020-11-06 |
| 69. |
This is my most special place in all the world, Ray. Once a ... |
39.64 |
0.9711 |
-0.0522 |
187 |
1 |
39.64 |
2020-11-02 |
| 70. |
Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wa... |
39.58 |
0.9301 |
-0.0091 |
123 |
1 |
39.58 |
2020-11-04 |
| 71. |
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelli... |
39.57 |
1.0195 |
-0.0948 |
148 |
1 |
39.57 |
2020-11-03 |
| 72. |
When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, "Grow up. Get a j... |
39.46 |
0.9338 |
-0.0224 |
236 |
1 |
39.46 |
2020-11-04 |
| 73. |
There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure 'cause y... |
39.29 |
1.0651 |
-0.1521 |
200 |
1 |
39.29 |
2020-11-04 |
| 74. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
39.25 |
1.0154 |
-0.0535 |
351 |
1 |
39.25 |
2020-11-03 |
| 75. |
His mother made him eat cooked carrots every day. He had far... |
39.23 |
0.9377 |
-0.0307 |
119 |
1 |
39.23 |
2020-11-08 |
| 76. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
39.01 |
1.0725 |
-0.1348 |
233 |
1 |
39.01 |
2020-11-04 |
| 77. |
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your though... |
38.88 |
1.0339 |
-0.1467 |
170 |
1 |
38.88 |
2020-11-04 |
| 78. |
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourse... |
38.84 |
1.0107 |
-0.1331 |
166 |
1 |
38.84 |
2020-11-04 |
| 79. |
As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years ... |
38.82 |
1.0144 |
-0.1086 |
214 |
1 |
38.82 |
2020-11-03 |
| 80. |
Higher and higher he climbed. His strength came from somewhe... |
38.82 |
0.9926 |
-0.0847 |
284 |
1 |
38.82 |
2020-11-02 |
| 81. |
If the aliens came down today, what would they think, what w... |
38.72 |
1.0435 |
-0.1508 |
248 |
1 |
38.72 |
2020-11-02 |
| 82. |
This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without c... |
38.72 |
1.0064 |
-0.1018 |
275 |
1 |
38.72 |
2020-11-03 |
| 83. |
I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haver... |
38.43 |
0.8313 |
0.0622 |
208 |
1 |
38.43 |
2020-11-10 |
| 84. |
Sometimes, when you meet a new operative, it's a good idea t... |
37.52 |
1.0322 |
-0.1594 |
310 |
1 |
37.52 |
2020-11-04 |
| 85. |
Yeah. You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt r... |
37.44 |
0.9039 |
-0.0339 |
107 |
1 |
37.44 |
2020-11-04 |
| 86. |
Buddy sat down beside me. He put his arm around my waist and... |
37.44 |
0.9507 |
-0.0366 |
210 |
1 |
37.44 |
2020-11-10 |
| 87. |
In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respond... |
37.36 |
0.9319 |
-0.0759 |
148 |
1 |
37.36 |
2020-11-04 |
| 88. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
37.26 |
1.0034 |
-0.1361 |
302 |
1 |
37.26 |
2020-11-03 |
| 89. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
37.03 |
0.9196 |
-0.0584 |
148 |
1 |
37.03 |
2020-11-04 |
| 90. |
The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news storie... |
36.92 |
0.9152 |
-0.0569 |
218 |
1 |
36.92 |
2020-11-03 |
| 91. |
They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, ... |
36.87 |
1.0271 |
-0.1230 |
250 |
1 |
36.87 |
2020-11-04 |
| 92. |
They wanted me to build them a bomb so I took their plutoniu... |
36.80 |
0.9511 |
-0.0965 |
208 |
1 |
36.80 |
2020-11-03 |
| 93. |
No one would ever say, "Come and join us, Caroline," so I wo... |
36.76 |
1.0389 |
-0.1837 |
259 |
1 |
36.76 |
2020-11-03 |
| 94. |
Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his ... |
36.64 |
0.9113 |
-0.0637 |
304 |
1 |
36.64 |
2020-11-04 |
| 95. |
Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me am... |
36.59 |
0.9832 |
-0.1322 |
298 |
1 |
36.59 |
2020-11-03 |
| 96. |
It's getting harder and harder for me to return to my true f... |
36.48 |
1.0094 |
-0.1621 |
248 |
1 |
36.48 |
2020-11-04 |
| 97. |
I just want to tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you unde... |
36.48 |
1.0302 |
-0.1768 |
245 |
1 |
36.48 |
2020-11-02 |
| 98. |
It's not enough to change a few little habits! Everybody I k... |
36.37 |
0.8077 |
0.0384 |
102 |
1 |
36.37 |
2020-11-03 |
| 99. |
I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolesc... |
36.16 |
0.9292 |
-0.0907 |
179 |
1 |
36.16 |
2020-11-02 |
| 100. |
I'm not very good at this, out, being in public. But I felt ... |
36.16 |
1.0774 |
-0.2355 |
219 |
1 |
36.16 |
2020-11-02 |
| 101. |
Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we ... |
35.87 |
0.9239 |
-0.0912 |
142 |
1 |
35.87 |
2020-11-05 |
| 102. |
All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may ... |
35.81 |
0.9868 |
-0.1716 |
150 |
1 |
35.81 |
2020-11-02 |
| 103. |
How can an Image-Fiction writer hope to make people more cri... |
35.77 |
0.8815 |
-0.0490 |
252 |
1 |
35.77 |
2020-11-07 |
| 104. |
Is getting rid of all the thorns in someone's path really wh... |
35.62 |
0.9303 |
-0.1028 |
79 |
1 |
35.62 |
2020-11-02 |
| 105. |
I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot ... |
35.30 |
0.9512 |
-0.1366 |
81 |
1 |
35.30 |
2020-11-02 |
| 106. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
35.20 |
1.0077 |
-0.1468 |
250 |
1 |
35.20 |
2020-11-03 |
| 107. |
I am sailing home again. 'Cross the sea I am sailing stormy ... |
35.13 |
0.9632 |
-0.1537 |
195 |
1 |
35.13 |
2020-11-02 |
| 108. |
I was standing all alone in the world outside. You were sear... |
35.06 |
1.0406 |
-0.2240 |
188 |
1 |
35.06 |
2020-11-02 |
| 109. |
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself... |
34.99 |
1.0544 |
-0.2626 |
176 |
1 |
34.99 |
2020-11-02 |
| 110. |
Kelsey, in this terrifying world, all we have are the connec... |
34.88 |
0.9565 |
-0.1768 |
106 |
1 |
34.88 |
2020-11-02 |
| 111. |
Often the trouble with magical things. They're never quite w... |
34.67 |
0.8419 |
-0.0435 |
77 |
1 |
34.67 |
2020-11-04 |
| 112. |
Recalling the past dredges up regrets that make me want to d... |
34.20 |
1.0255 |
-0.2355 |
204 |
1 |
34.20 |
2020-11-02 |
| 113. |
Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one. Rememb... |
34.10 |
0.9803 |
-0.1874 |
216 |
1 |
34.10 |
2020-11-02 |
| 114. |
Balderdash! Why, I once watched "Gentleman" Jim Corbett figh... |
33.99 |
0.8133 |
-0.0214 |
220 |
1 |
33.99 |
2020-11-04 |
| 115. |
I'm happy here. You know, someone once told me my life is a ... |
33.46 |
1.0156 |
-0.2375 |
287 |
1 |
33.46 |
2020-11-03 |
| 116. |
My name is Harvey Pekar - that's an unusual name - Harvey Pe... |
33.42 |
0.8923 |
-0.1156 |
246 |
1 |
33.42 |
2020-11-02 |
| 117. |
Carry on my wayward son. There'll be peace when you are done... |
32.90 |
0.8712 |
-0.1123 |
113 |
1 |
32.90 |
2020-11-02 |
| 118. |
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling from glen to ... |
32.54 |
0.9635 |
-0.2090 |
360 |
1 |
32.54 |
2020-11-02 |
| 119. |
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, e... |
32.25 |
0.9371 |
-0.1874 |
326 |
1 |
32.25 |
2020-11-04 |
| 120. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
32.01 |
0.9631 |
-0.1723 |
345 |
1 |
32.01 |
2020-11-02 |
| 121. |
It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situat... |
31.82 |
0.9145 |
-0.1732 |
207 |
1 |
31.82 |
2020-11-02 |
| 122. |
When we're young, we're taught the distinction between a her... |
31.54 |
1.0141 |
-0.2883 |
188 |
1 |
31.54 |
2020-11-02 |
| 123. |
Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. Yo... |
31.29 |
1.0317 |
-0.3055 |
129 |
1 |
31.29 |
2020-11-02 |
| 124. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
31.25 |
0.8553 |
-0.1309 |
174 |
1 |
31.25 |
2020-11-04 |
| 125. |
I think I'm starting to lose my sense of humor. Everything's... |
31.16 |
0.9756 |
-0.2591 |
306 |
1 |
31.16 |
2020-11-02 |
| 126. |
This is the most stupid, irresponsible, dangerous thing you ... |
31.07 |
0.9482 |
-0.2276 |
220 |
1 |
31.07 |
2020-11-03 |
| 127. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
30.00 |
0.8145 |
-0.1162 |
115 |
1 |
30.00 |
2020-11-02 |
| 128. |
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There's vo... |
29.91 |
0.8338 |
-0.1425 |
104 |
1 |
29.91 |
2020-11-02 |
| 129. |
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count: ... |
29.59 |
0.9313 |
-0.2642 |
88 |
1 |
29.59 |
2020-11-04 |
| 130. |
I make my living off the evening news. Just give me somethin... |
29.25 |
1.0139 |
-0.3491 |
138 |
1 |
29.25 |
2020-11-02 |
| 131. |
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much hap... |
29.16 |
0.8748 |
-0.1978 |
141 |
1 |
29.16 |
2020-11-02 |
| 132. |
Have you ever wanted to sleep for a hundred or thousand year... |
29.14 |
1.0062 |
-0.3279 |
225 |
1 |
29.14 |
2020-11-02 |
| 133. |
From this proposition it will follow, when arithmetical addi... |
28.87 |
0.7465 |
-0.0664 |
98 |
1 |
28.87 |
2020-11-02 |
| 134. |
I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses. I proclaim ... |
28.00 |
0.8933 |
-0.2446 |
233 |
1 |
28.00 |
2020-11-02 |
| 135. |
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, ev... |
26.13 |
0.7801 |
-0.1761 |
107 |
1 |
26.13 |
2020-11-02 |
| 136. |
Imagine if Christopher Columbus had come back from the New W... |
24.25 |
0.8121 |
-0.2498 |
102 |
1 |
24.25 |
2020-11-02 |